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Monday November 21, 2005

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Week of November 21, 2005

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10:00Post-Katrina Recovery Update

The Federal Emergency Management Agency warned 150,000 Katrina evacuees that it will no longer pay for the hotel rooms they're living in as of Dec. 1. We talk about what these families will do, the ways the government will continue to help, and the ongoing challenges of recovery from this year's Gulf Coast hurricanes.

Guests

David Garratt, acting director of FEMA's recovery division

Ronald Utt, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation

Amy Liu, deputy director of the Metropolitan Policy Project at the Brookings Institution

Ceci Connolly, reporter, Washington Post

11:00Jerome Karabel: "The Chosen" (Houghton Mifflin)

A sociologist details the history of admissions policies at Harvard, Princeton and Yale and details how these polices have mirrored shifting notions of merit in the culture at large

Guests

Jerome Karabel, author and professor of sociology, University of California, Berkeley and senior fellow, Longview Institute

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