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Journalist Michael Ware is the Baghdad Bureau Chief for Time Magazine. He was embedded in Fallujah during the recent US offensive earlier this month, and has covered the war in Iraq since February 2003. He joins us today with his perspective on the situation in Iraq. Next, Jason Deparle looks at how the 1996 welfare reforms affected the lives of three families in his book American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare. Mr. Deparle is joined by Ken Thigpen, whose family is profiled in the book. Then, Robin Lane Fox tries to uncover what Alexander the Great was really like with a new compilation of writings from Alexander’s classic biographers.