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Throughout the war in Iraq The Bush administration has insisted that regime change and establishing free elections are among its major goals in the conflict. Noah Feldman, an Islamic scholar, considers how a transition to a democracy would affect Iraq as well as the ramifications it would have on the Middle East. Then, film critic Richard Shickel discusses growing up during World War II. He explains how the movies he saw during that period influenced the way he sees films now. Then, Paul Theroux describes his travels across Africa, Dark Star Safari and Joyce Maynard with her novel The Usual Rules.