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Wednesday May 23, 2007

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10:00Lebanon

Guest host: Steve Roberts

The Lebanese government battles a militant Islamic group holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Implications of the flare-up, the state of the Lebanese government, and Lebanon's role in regional security.

Guests

Marina S. Ottaway, director of the Middle East program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Emile El-Hokayem, research fellow, the Henry L. Stimson Center

Jay Solomon, reporter, The Wall Street Journal

11:00Walter Isaacson: "Einstein" (Simon & Schuster)

Guest host: Steve Roberts

Recently released personal papers of Albert Einstein shed new light on the world's most famous physicist. A look at the man behind E=MC2.

Guests

Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute, former chairman of CNN and managing editor of "Time Magazine," author of "Benjamin Franklin" and "Kissinger," and coauthor of "The Wise Men."

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