Charlie Rose - Guests

Kenneth Rogoff

Kenneth Rogoff is currently the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Akiva Eldar

Akiva Eldar is a chief political columnist and editorial writer for the prestigious Israeli national daily 'Ha'aretz', and a contributor to the 'Ha'aretz-Herald Tribune' edition, as well as in the Japanese daily 'Mainichi'. He lectured at the School of Journalism in Tel Aviv University and is also a consultant at CBS News. Eldar was previously the 'Ha'aretz' U.S. Bureau Chief and Washington correspondent (1993-1996). Eldar was also a reporter and editor at the 'Israeli Public Radio', and he is the co-author of the biography of Shimon Peres, Israel's foreign minister. Source- [http://centerpeace.org/events/Intifada/eldar.htm](http://centerpeace.org/events/Intifada/eldar.htm)

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving within the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she served as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. In the 2008 election Clinton was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Source- Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton)

Mohamed ElBaradei

Mohamed ElBaradei is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Egyptian diplomat and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an inter-governmental organization under the auspices of the United Nations. ElBaradei?s diplomatic career began in 1964 in the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign affairs, where he served on two occasions in the Permanent Missions of Egypt to the United Nations in New York and in Geneva. In 1980, he became a senior fellow in charge of the tariat, holding a number of high-level positions. Before his current position of Director General, he was the agency's legal adviser (1984 to 1993) and Assistant Director General for External Relations (1993 to 1997). Source-Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_ElBaradei](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_ElBaradei)

John Harris

John Harris covers national politics for "The Washington Post". He started with the paper in 1985 as a summer intern and worked his way up through a succession of local and national beats. In 1990, Harris was moved to the Richmond bureau, where he covered Virginia state government and politics for four years, including the turbulent and historic tenure of Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, the first African American elected governor in the United States since Reconstruction. Harris transferred to Washington and the National staff in 1994, when he began reporting about the Pentagon, including the U.S. military intervention in Haiti. The next year, he was moved over to the White House beat, arriving just as President Clinton was trying to recover from the 1994 mid-term elections. For the next few years, Harris has written about the ups and downs of the Clinton presidency, from the depths of the federal government shutdowns to the triumphant 1996 re-election and everything in between. Harris also served as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in 2003, focusing on the Clinton presidency and national politics. Source-PBS.org [http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/aroundthetable/harris.html](http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/aroundthetable/harris.html)

John Grisham

John Ray Grisham Jr. is a former politician, retired attorney, American novelist and author best known for his works of modern legal drama. Grisham received an undergraduate degree in accounting from Mississippi State University in 1977 then attended law school at the University of Mississippi, where he earned a law degree in 1981. He established a law practice in Southaven, where he practiced both criminal and civil law. In 1983, he was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives. In 1989 he published his first novel, "A Time to Kill". However, "The Firm" would end up being his break-out hit. In 1990, before the novel was published, Paramount Pictures purchased the film rights for $600,000. That same year, he resigned from the House of Representatives and bought a farm near Oxford, Mississippi. Since then, Grisham has gone on to be recognized as one of the world's bestselling novelists. His titles include "The Pelican Brief", "The Client", "The Chamber", and "The Rainmaker", each of which has been scripted into immensely successful film versions. His most recent novels are "The Partner" (1997), "The Street Lawyer" (1998), "The Testament" (1999), and "The Brethren" (2000). Source -[http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/grisham_john/](http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/grisham_john/)

Peter Kaplan

Peter Kaplan is the former Editor-In-Chief of the New York Observer, a weekly newspaper. Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kaplan

Ken Auletta

Ken Auletta is an American journalist and author. he has written "Annals of Communications" columns and profiles for "The New Yorker" magazine since 1992. He is the author of ten books, including four national bestsellers: "Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way"; "Greed And Glory On Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman"; his "The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Super Highway", and "World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies", were national business bestsellers. A collection of Auletta's New Yorker journalism pieces "Backstory: Inside the Business of News" was published in December 2003. Source- [http://www.kenauletta.com/biography.html](http://www.kenauletta.com/biography.html)

Al Gore

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. is an American politician, teacher, businessman, and environmentalist. From 1993 to 2001 he was the 45th Vice President of the United States under the Clinton administration. Previously, Gore had served in the United States House of Representatives (1977?85) and the United States Senate (1985?93) representing Tennessee. He was the Democratic nominee for President in the 2000 election, but lost narrowly to George W. Bush. Today, Gore is president of the American television channel Current TV, chairman of Generation Investment Management, a director on the board of Apple Inc., and an unofficial adviser to Google's senior management. In 2006 he starred in the Academy Award-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth", discussing global warming and the environment. Source -Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore)

Peter Orszag

Peter Richard Orszag is an American economist who is currently the 37th Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama. He was Director of the Congressional Budget Office when nominated.

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is a British historian of modern imperialism. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Ferguson is best known for his book 'The Pity of War' (1998) and he is also the author of 'The War of the World' (2006). Source - Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_Ferguson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_Ferguson)

Bartholomew

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I is the Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, and thus "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Communion, since 2 November 1991. He is thus the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians around the world. Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarch_Bartholomew_I_of_Constantinople

James Watson

James Watson and fellow scientist Francis Crick were the first to describe the hidden double-helix structure of DNA molecules. In 1962, Watson and Crick and their collaborator Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Watson was on the faculty of Harvard University for 21 years, from 1956-76, and was director of the National Center for Human Genome Research from 1989-92. His account of his DNA discoveries with Crick, 'The Double Helix', was published in 1968. Watson entered the University of Chicago at age 15. He earned his bachelor's degree there in 1947. Source - [http://www.answers.com/james%20d%20watson](http://www.answers.com/james%20d%20watson)

John Searle

John Rogers Searle is an American philosopher and presently the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Searle began his college education at the University of Wisconsin, and subsequently became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where he earned an undergraduate degree and a doctorate in philosophy. Widely noted for his contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and social philosophy, he began teaching at Berkeley in 1959, where, among his many distinctions, he was the first tenured professor to join the Free Speech Movement. He received the Jean Nicod Prize in 2000, and the National Humanities Medal in 2004. Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle

Cornelia Bargmann

Cornelia Bargmann is a pioneering scientist in the field of neurobiology and behavior in the C. elegans. She particularly studies olfaction in the worm. She has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and is currently a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Rockefeller University. SOurce - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Bargmann

Anthony Movshon

Dr. Movshon is Presidential Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at New York University and Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at New York University School of Medicine. He received his B.A. degree and his Ph.D. degree in experimental psychology from Cambridge University, where he worked with Colin Blakemore. Dr. Movshon then joined the faculty at NYU, where he was founding director of the NYU Center for Neural Science. Among his honors are the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience and the Rank Prize for optoelectronics.

Gerald Fischbach

Gerald Fischbach is executive vice president for Health and Biomedical Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Dr. Fischbach began his research career at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), serving from 1966 to 1973. He subsequently served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, first as associate professor of pharmacology from 1973 to 1978 and then as professor until 1981. From 1981 to 1990, Dr. Fischbach was the Edison Professor of Neurobiology and head of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University School of Medicine. In 1990, he returned to Harvard where he was the Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology and chairman of the neurobiology departments of Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital until 1998. He served as director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, from 1998 to 2001. Dr. Fischbach, a former president of the Society of Neuroscience, is a member of the NAS and IOM, and he now serves on several medical and scientific advisory boards. Source - Columbia University [http://www.kidsmentalhealth.org/GeraldFischbach.html](http://www.kidsmentalhealth.org/GeraldFischbach.html)

Eric Kandel

Eric R. Kandel, M.D. is a Nobel Prize-winning medical researcher. He is University Professor at Columbia and a Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He joined the faculty of the College of Physician and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1974 as the founding Director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior. Kandel's research has been concerned with the molecular mechanisms of memory storage in Aplysia and mice. Recently he has focused on the genetic switch for converting short-term to long-term memory and on how long term memory can be restricted to be synapse-specific for which he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 2000. He has been recognized with the Albert Lasker Award, the Wolf Prize of Israel and the National Medal of Science. Source-The Ellison Medical Foundation [http://www.ellisonfoundation.org/emf_bio.jsp?pid=76](http://www.ellisonfoundation.org/emf_bio.jsp?pid=76)

Sam Tanenhaus

Sam Tanenhaus is an American author, historian and biographer. He was an assistant editor at "The New York Times", a contributing editor at "Vanity Fair", and has been the senior editor of "The New York Times Book Review". His 1997 biography of Whittaker Chambers won the "Los Angeles Times Book Prize" and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Tanenhaus is also the author of many books. He wrote "Literature Unbound", "Louis Armstrong (Black Americans of Achievement)", and "Old Greenwich Village: An Architectural Portrait". Source - Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Tanenhaus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Tanenhaus)

Michael Stuhlbarg

In 2005, Michael Stuhlbarg was a Tony Award nominee and a Drama Desk Award winner for his performance in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, staged by John Crowley. He has also been honored with the New Dramatists Charles Bowden Actor Award and the Elliot Norton Boston Theatre Award, the latter for his performance in Long Day’s Journey into Night. The actor’s other Broadway credits include the National Actors Theatre productions of Saint Joan, Three Men on a Horse, Timon of Athens, and The Government Inspector; Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides, staged by David Jones; Sam Mendes’ revival of Cabaret; and Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love, staged by Jack O’Brien. Mr. Stuhlbarg’s New York Shakespeare Festival stage credits include Twelfth Night, as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Richard II, in the lead role. He has starred in a host of off-Broadway productions, playing the title roles in Oskar Eustis’ staging of Hamlet, for which he won a Drama League Award; and David Warren’s staging of The Voysey Inheritance, for which he received Obie and Callaway Awards and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination. He has also starred off-Broadway in such shows as Cymbeline, reprising his role in a U.K. stint of the production; Old Wicked Songs, for which he was a Drama League Award recipient; Measure For Pleasure which earned him a Lucille Lortel Award nomination and The Grey Zone. When the latter show’s playwright Tim Blake Nelson adapted and directed a feature film version, Mr. Stuhlbarg appeared in the movie as well, playing a different role than he had in the stage version. His other films include Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio; Boaz Yakin’s A Price Above Rubies; Antonio Campos’ Afterschool, which was showcased at the 2008 New York and Cannes International Film Festivals, and which will be released in the fall of 2009; Sophie Barthes’ Cold Souls, with Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn; and Martin Scorsese’s short homage to Alfred Hitchcock, The Key to Reserva. He recently reteamed with Mr. Scorsese, costarring in the latter’s just-wrapped cable pilot Boardwalk Empire. He has made guest appearances on such television series as Damages and, most recently and memorably, Ugly Betty. Mr. Stuhlbarg received his BFA from The Juilliard School. He also studied at UCLA; at the Vilnius Conservatory in Lithuania’s Chekhov Studies unit; at the British-American Drama Academy at Baliol and Keble Colleges in Oxford; and, on a full scholarship, with Marcel Marceau.

Richard Kind

Richard J. Kind is an American actor known for his roles in the sitcoms Mad About You and Spin City. Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kind

Alison Gopnik

Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. She is an international leader in the field of children's learning and was one of the first cognitive scientists to show how developmental psychology could help solve ancient philosophical problems. She is the coauthor (with Andrew Meltzoff) of "Words, Thoughts, and Theories", and (with Patricia Kuhl and Andrew Meltzoff) of "The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn". Source -www.edge.org [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/gopnik.html](http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/gopnik.html)

Ethan Coen

Ethan Coen is an American filmmaker and writer with his brother, Ethan Coen. They are commonly known as The Coen Brothers. Together, they have written and directed numerous successful films, such as comedies "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", "Raising Arizona" and "The Big Lebowski". They have become notorious for blurring the line between drama and comedy with movies like "Fargo", "The Man Who Wasn't There", and "Barton Fink". The brothers are known in the film business as "the two-headed director". The pair are frequently credited on their own films as editor under the name "Roderick Jaynes". The Coens also often set their movies in times of American crises: "Miller's Crossing" during prohibition, "Barton Fink" in the time around the attack on Pearl Harbor, "The Big Lebowski" during the 1991 Gulf War. Source- Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Coen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Coen)

Joel Coen

Joel Coen is an American filmmaker and writer with his brother, Ethan Coen. They are commonly known as The Coen Brothers. They have written and directed numerous successful films, such as comedies "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", "Raising Arizona" and "The Big Lebowski". They have become notorious for blurring the line between drama and comedy with movies like "Fargo", "The Man Who Wasn't There", and "Barton Fink". The brothers are known in the film business as "the two-headed director". The pair are frequently credited on their own films as editor under the name "Roderick Jaynes". The Coens also often set their movies in times of American crises: "Miller's Crossing" during prohibition, "Barton Fink" in the time around the attack on Pearl Harbor, "The Big Lebowski" during the 1991 Gulf War. Source- Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Coen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Coen)

Brian Ross

Brian Ross is an American journalist. As ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent, he reports for "World News with Charles Gibson," "Nightline," "Good Morning America," "20/20" and "Primetime," as well as for ABC News Radio and ABCNews.com. Ross' reports have won four duPont awards, four Peabody awards, five awards from the Overseas Press Club and nine Emmys. In 2005, his investigative work garnered a George Polk Award and the Outstanding International Investigative Reporting Award by the Center for Public Integrity. Source - ABC News [http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=127548](http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=127548)

David Rohde

David Stephenson Rohde is an American investigative journalist for The New York Times.

Jann S. Wenner

Jann S. Wenner is the owner of Wenner Media and the publisher of several magazines, most prominently the pop music biweekly "Rolling Stone". In 1967, Wenner founded Rolling Stone Magazine together with music critic Ralph J. Gleason in San Francisco with $7500 borrowed from his wife, Jane Wenner's family. He is now also the publisher of "Us", a celebrity magazine, and "Men's Journal", a fitness and lifestyle magazine. Source - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jann_Wenner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jann_Wenner)

Peter King

Senior writer Peter King is one of America's premier pro football writers and his Monday Morning Quarterback column on SI.com, which began in 1997, has become a must-read for fans, league insiders and anyone who loves the NFL. On some weeks the column generates more than 1,000 e-mails. King joined SPORTS ILLUSTRATED as a staff writer in 1989 -- he celebrated his 20th anniversary at the magazine on June 10 -- after spending nearly a decade as an award-winning newspaper journalist. He appears frequently as a commentator on radio and TV talk shows across the nation and for the past two years has served as a reporter for NBC's Football Night in America studio show. He also co-hosts (with Bob Papa and Randy Cross) Sirius Radio's The Opening Drive, which airs weekdays from 8-11 a.m. ET. King served as a halftime analyst for ABC's Monday Night Football in 1994 and 1995 and was also the primary NFL commentator for CNN's NFL Preview and CNN/SI, the now-defunct 24-hour sports news and information network. He joined HBO's Inside the NFL in 2002 as managing editor, and after his arrival, the program won its first Emmy for Outstanding Studio Show. It won three sports Emmys during King's tenure. Born in Springfield, Mass., and raised in Enfield, CT., where he was the captain of his high school baseball and soccer teams, King earned a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Ohio University in 1979.

Stephen Roach

Stephen S. Roach is Managing Director and Chief Economist of Morgan Stanley, a leading global financial services firm. In this role, he oversees the Firm's highly-regarded team of economists located in New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Roach has been widely recognized as one of Wall Street's most influential economists. His published research has covered a broad range of topics, with recent emphasis on globalization, the emergence of China, productivity, and the capital market implications of global imbalances. Before joining Morgan Stanley in 1982, Roach was Vice President for Economic Analysis for the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in New York. Source - Morgan Stanley [http://www.morganstanley.com/views/gef/team/index.html](http://www.morganstanley.com/views/gef/team/index.html)

Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. Since stepping down from office he has remained one of the most influential politicians in Singapore. Yew has won numerous awards throughout his career, including a Man for Peace award. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Source - Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew)

Jeffrey Bender

Michael Moss

Michael Moss is a journalist for The New York Times

Richard Besser

Richard Besser, MD, serves as director of the Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is responsible for all of CDC?s public health emergency preparedness and emergency response activities. He also served as Acting Director for the CDC and Acting Administrator for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) from January through June 2009, during which time he led CDC?s response to the H1N1 influenza outbreak. Source - http://www.cdc.gov/about/leadership/leaders/besser.htm

Donald McNeil

Donald McNeil is a journalist for The New York Times.

Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. He is a contributing writer for the "New York Times Magazine", a former executive editor for "Harper's Magazine", and author of four books: "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World", "A Place of My Own", and "Second Nature: A Gardener's Education". He has also written a number of articles regarding the trends of American agriculture. Pollan has received the Reuters World Conservation Union Global Awards in environmental journalism, the James Beard Foundation Awards for best magazine series, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane Association. His articles have been anthologized in "Best American Science Writing", "Best American Essays", and the "Norton Book of Nature Writing". Source-Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pollan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pollan)

David Kessler

David Aaron Kessler is an American physician, lawyer, and government official. He was the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from November 8, 1990 to February 28, 1997. After graduating from Amherst College in 1973, Kessler studied medicine at Harvard University, graduating with an M.D. degree in 1979, and law at the University of Chicago, graduating with a J.D. in 1978. While serving his residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, he worked as a consultant to Republican Senator Orrin Hatch from Utah on the safety of food additives and on the regulation of cigarettes and tobacco. From 1984, Kessler simultaneously ran a 431-bed teaching hospital in New York City and taught at the Columbia Law School and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. As FDA commissioner under George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Kessler moved quickly to make the agency more efficient, cutting the time needed to approve or reject new drugs, including AIDS drugs, and more vigilant in protecting consumers against unsafe products and inflated label claims. Under his watch the FDA enacted regulations requiring standardized Nutrition Facts labels on food. Kessler is also known for his role in having the FDA investigate whether it had the power to regulate cigarettes, which resulted in the FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. case. He is currently the dean and vice chancellor at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School. Source - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Aaron_Kessler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Aaron_Kessler)

Anthony Fauci

Anthony Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a position he has held since 1984. In 1968, Dr. Fauci came to the National Institutes of Health as a clinical associate in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In 1974, he became head of the Clinical Physiology Section, and in 1980 was appointed Chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation, a position he still holds. Dr. Fauci serves as one of the key advisors to the White House and Department of Health and Human Services on global illnesses. Dr. Fauci is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Philosophical Society, and the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, as well as a number of other professional societies. He serves on the editorial boards of many scientific journals, as an editor of 'Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine', and is an author, coauthor, or editor of many publications. Source - the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/about/directors/biography/](http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/about/directors/biography/)

Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch is an American author and historian, best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the history of the American civil rights movement. He won several awards for his trilogy, including the Pulitzer prize in 1988 for the first installment, "Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63" (1988), and the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award, for the second installment, "Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65" (1999). The third and final volume of the 2,912 page trilogy - collectively called "America in the King Years" - was released in January 2006. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Branch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Branch)

Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Korbel Albright was nominated by President Clinton on December 5, 1996 as Secretary of State. After being unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she was sworn in as the 64th Secretary of State on January 23, 1997. Secretary Albright is the first female secretary of state and the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. Source- [http://secretary.state.gov/www/albright/albright.html](http://secretary.state.gov/www/albright/albright.html)

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Andrew Ross Sorkin is the chief mergers and acquisitions reporter of "The New York Times," a position he has held since July 2000 after having served as the newspaper's European mergers and acquisitions reporter based in London, England since July 1999. Sorkin is also the founding editor of DealBook, an online daily financial report published by "The Times" and he writes a column of the same name for the paper on Sundays. Sorkin has been named one of the 30 most influential financial journalists in the nation under the age of 30 by TJFR/NewsBios for the past 4 years. He began writing for "The Times" in 1995 under unusual circumstances; at the time he started writing for the paper, he hadn't yet graduated from high school. Source -UCLA [http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x8873.xml](http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x8873.xml)