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Wednesday August 20, 2008

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10:00Fannie Mae the U.S. Mortgage Market

Stock prices of housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tumbled this week amid growing concerns that a government bailout of these institutions is inevitable. Fannie Mae's CEO, Daniel Mudd, talks about the future of his organization and the troubled housing market.

Guests

Daniel Mudd, President and Chief Executive Officer, Fannie Mae

11:00Readers Review: "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

Listeners are invited to join a panel discussion of what some critics have called the best novel to emerge from World War I.

Guests

Alex Vernon, Associate Professor of English at Hendrix College and the author of "Soldiers Once and Still," "The Eyes of Orion," "most succinctly bred," and the forthcoming "On Tarzan" to be published by The University of Georgia Press.

James Meredith, President of The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society; Retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and Professor of English at the Air Force Academy; author of "Understanding the Literature of World War I," "Understanding the Literature of World War II;" and editor of a collection of essays titled "War in Hemingway's Time," which will be published by Kent State University Press in 2009.

Kayla Williams, author of "Love My Rifle More Than You" and former Sargent in a military intelligence company of the 101st Airborne Division(Air Assault).

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