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New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy discusses the findings of the recently-released Hutton report, exonerating British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Then Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead, explains that the war in Iraq won’t soon be over for the veterans, even after they return home. New Yorker staff writer and Harvard Medical School professor Jerome Groopman talks about the role of hope in coping with serious illness. And journalist Richard Cohen on his battle with multiple sclerosis. He was diagnosed with the disease in 1972 at the age of 25.