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Tuesday March 29, 2005

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10:00Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

A series of pension failures in recent years has left the federal agency responsible for ensuring those plans in the red. A panel talks about ideas for strengthening the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and how they would affect workers and American businesses.

Guests

Bradley Belt, executive director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Teresa Ghilarducci, professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, and former labor representative to the PBGC

James Klein, president, American Benefits Council

11:00Asra Nomani: "Standing Alone in Mecca" (Harper San Francisco)

A Muslim woman born in India and raised in West Virginia recounts the hajj she took with her infant son, father and mother and niece and nephew. She examines the role of women in Islam and details her fight against sexism and intolerance at her local mosque.

Guests

Asra Nomani, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, has written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Time magazine. She is the author of "Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love."

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