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Tuesday December 12, 2006

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Week of December 11, 2006

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10:00Departing U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan

Diane and her guests talk about the legacy and views of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.

Guests

Barbara Slavin, senior diplomatic reporter, USA Today

Dr. Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation

Stanley Meisler, author of "Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War" (Wiley) and former foreign and diplomatic correspondent for the Los Angeles Times

11:00Gayle Pritchard: "Uncommon Threads" (Ohio University Press)

In the middle of the country, in the middle of the last century, artists took up needle and thread to create quilts made to be hung on walls rather than thrown on beds. We learn about the central role Ohio artists played in the art quilt revolution.

Guests

Gayle Pritchard, fiber artist, curator, lecturer, and teacher.

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