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Diane and her guests discuss what the financial crisis means for retirement accounts, including pressures on employers, workers, and retirees.
David Wessel, economics editor, The Wall Street Journal
Mark Iwry, a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Principal of the Retirement Security Project, Research Professor at Georgetown University, and former Benefits Tax Counsel at the U.S. Treasury Dept. from 1995-2001.
Karen Friedman, policy director, Pension Rights Center
James Klein, president, American Benefits Council
In two-thousand-five a son traveled to conflict-ridden Iraq, hoping to understand his father's past as a Jew in Kurdistan. It's the story of a disappearing way of life and an ancient language on the verge of extinction. It's also a son's story of reconciliation with his father
Ariel Sabar, Ariel Sabar is an award-winning former staff writer for "The Baltimore Sun" and the "Providence Journal."
Yona Sabar, Professor of Hebrew and Aramaic at UCLA's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.