Monday February 19, 2007
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Diane and her guests talk about the visit by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the Middle East, the agreement among Palestinians to form a Hamas-Fatah coalition, and the future of the U.S. role in progress toward peace in the Middle East.
Dennis Ross, former Middle East Special Coordinator, counselor and Ziegler distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Hisham Melhem, Washington bureau chief for Al-Arabiya TV, and Washington correspondent for "An-Nahar"
Barbara Slavin, senior diplomatic reporter, USA Today
By some accounts, the institution of marriage is deteriorating; others say it's adapting and changing with the times. A sociologist talks about a new study that used surveys of couples in 1980 and 2000 to assess how marriage is changing, for better or for worse, and what those changes mean for men, women, children, and American society as a whole.
Paul Amato, professor of sociology at the Pennsylvania State University.