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10:00U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan

Guest host: Susan Page

The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan tells President Obama we need a shift in strategy in the eight-year war. Analysis of the challenges facing U-S forces and continuing turmoil over election results in Afghanistan

Guests

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor for continuous news at "The Washington Post"

Max Boot, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of "War Made New" (Gotham Books)

Nathan Freier, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS

Masood Aziz, former senior advisor at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington DC and now an independent analyst.

11:00Nancy Rappaport: "In Her Wake" (Basic Books)

Guest host: Susan Page

A community activist and socialite commits suicide after a bitter divorce in 1963. Her daughter is now a psychiatrist, wife, and mother. The search to understand why her mother took her own life. A story of loss, reconciliation, and healing.

Guests

Nancy Rappaport, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, attending child and adolescent psychiatry consultant to the Cambridge Public Schools, and director of school-based programs in child psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance.

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