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Wednesday October 18, 2006
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Topic and guests to be announced
Peter Brookes, senior fellow for national security affairs at the Heritage Foundation; former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific affairs in the Bush administration; author, "A Devil's Triangle: Terrorism, WMD and Rogue States."
Selig Harrison, director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy
Graham Allison, former assistant secretary of defense, professor of government at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, and author of "Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis."
David Kang, associate professor,Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Dartmouth College
Today's NASCAR is a family sport with 75 million loyal fans across America, but dark secrets lurk in its past. A journalist traces the origins of stock car racing to moonshining whiskey in the Prohibition-era South.
Neal Thompson, journalist and author of "Light This Candle: The Life and Times of Alan Shepard."
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