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10:00Faith and the Presidency

Both John Kerry and George W. Bush say they rely on their religious faith to guide them in their private and public lives. Diane and her guests talk about the role of religious faith in the presidential campaigns.

Guests

Ron Suskind, author, "The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11;" former reporter for the "Wall Street Journal"

Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College; author of "God and George W. Bush" and author of an op-ed in the Oct. 18 New York Times entitled "What Bush Believes"

11:00Readers' Review: "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

The author and his family fled Afghanistan in the 1970s. Now a doctor in California, he's written the first novel in English by an Afghan. It offers an intimate account of family and friendship, betrayal and salvation set against the tragic history of modern Afghanistan.

Guests

Akbar S. Ahmed, chair of Islamic studies at American University

Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

E. Ethelbert Miller, poet; director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, chair of the Washington D.C. Humanities Council. His last book was "How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love."

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