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Archbishop and Actor
In 1984 Archbishop Desmond Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize for his anti-apartheid work in South Africa. This year he has taken to acting, and for two nights only this month he will star in the new play “Guantánamo”, portraying Lord Steyn, a British Magistrate who speaks out for three detainees in Camp Delta. Also the New York Times’ Sam Roberts, New Jersey on the fence, and 30 issues: are we safer after the Iraq war?
30 Issues: Has the Iraq War Made Us Safer?
Max Boot, Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and former editorial features editor, The Wall Street Journal, says the Iraq war has made us safer
» Max Boot
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George A. Lopez, professor of political science and Senior Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, says the Iraq war has not made us safer
» George Lopez
Who Am I?
Sam Roberts, reporter, columnist and editor for The New York Times, and author, Who We Are NowL The Changing Face of American in the Twenty-first Century (Times Books 2004), on who Americans are culturally and politically
» New York Times
From the Altar to the Stage
Desmond Tutu, former Archbishop of Cape Town, former head of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, on his role in Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom
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Allan Buchman, executive producer of Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, and founder of The Culture Project
» Guantanamo: Honor Bound
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