Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

10 a.m. (ET)

A series of pension failures in recent years has left the federal agency responsible for ensuring those plans in the red. A panel talks about ideas for strengthening the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and how they would affect...

Asra Nomani: "Standing Alone in Mecca" (Harper San Francisco)

11 a.m. (ET)

A Muslim woman born in India and raised in West Virginia recounts the hajj she took with her infant son, father and mother and niece and nephew. She examines the role of women in Islam and details her fight against sexism and intolerance...

The Diane Rehm Show is produced by member-supported WAMU 88.5 in Washington DC.