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Monday March 5, 2007

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Week of March 5, 2007

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10:00China's Rise

A look at China's growing economic might and global influence, and U.S.-China policy.

Guests

Albert Keidel, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former deputy director for the Office of East Asian Nations at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the Bush administration

James Mann, author-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies; author of the new book, "The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression;" former Beijing bureau chief for the "Los Angeles Times." Other books include "About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China."

David Shambaugh, director of the China policy program at George Washington University, non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and author of "Modernizing China's Military" (University of California)

11:00The "Jesus Family Tomb" Story

Guest host: Susan Page

A new book and movie suggest that archaeologists have up to now ignored evidence pointing to the possibility that the family tomb of Jesus of Nazareth was found in 1980 during construction in Jerusalem. Susan Page and her guests talk about this idea and why it's drawing criticism from Biblical scholars, archeaologists, and other experts.

Guests

Anthony Tambasco, professor of theology at Georgetown University.

Simcha Jacobovici, director of the TV documentary, "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" and co-author of a book called "The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History."

Eric Meyers, professor of Judaic studies and director of the graduate program in religion at Duke University, and president of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

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