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Week of July 27, 2008
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Guest host: Susan Page
After seven years of negotiations, the Doha Round of World Trade Organization talks collapsed this week. A look at the split between established and rising powers over protecting interests at home, and different views on how future agreements can best tap the benefits of trade.
Claude Barfield, resident scholar, the American Enterprise Institute
Robert Scott, international economist and director of international programs at the Economic Policy Institute
Jutta Hennig, chief editor, "Inside U.S. Trade"
Gawain Kripke, policy director, Oxfam America
Guest host: Susan Page
An author describes her upbringing in a small, Oklahoma town and examines her struggles with writer's block and depression.
Teresa Miller, author of the novels "Remnants of Glory" and "Family Correspondence," teacher and founder of the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers, and host and executive producer of "Writing Out Loud" on PBS.
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