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Wednesday November 21, 2007

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10:00Presidential Election Campaign & the Debates

With just six weeks to go before the first ballots are cast in the Iowa Caususes, we look at where the candidates stand on the issues, the latest polls and whether voters are learning or not learning about the candidates from the many debates.

Guests

Richard Kimball, President of Project Vote Smart

Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of the Rothenberg Political Report

E.J. Dionne, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Washington Post columnist, and author of "Stand Up Fight Back."

11:00Readers Review: "What is the What" by Dave Eggers

Listeners are invited to join the discussion about a novel based on the odyssey of a "Sudanese Lost Boy" from his village in Southern Sudan to temporary shelter in Ethiopia to a vast refugee camp in Kenya and finally to Atlanta.

Guests

Gary Krist, prize-winning novelist and historian.

Kenneth Bacon, president of Refugees International

Abraham Awolich, co-director of the New Sudan Education Initiative (NESEI)

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