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• Bailout plan for homeowners
  Obama announces his mortgage aid plan this week, but both homeowners and the markets are skeptical that the goverment's $50 billion proposal can slow the increasing rates of foreclosure.9:06 a.m.
  Guests
  Lori Montgomery: is a financial reporter for the Washington Post.
  Cheryl Peterson: manager of the Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity foreclosure counseling service in Minneapolis.
  More from MPR
  Coalition calls for mortorium on foreclosures (02/16/2009)
  Study: Many minorities cut out of prime loan market (02/12/2009)
  Resources
  Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity
  Articles by Montgomery
• Family secrets kept close
  The best-selling author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" gives us a new memoir and a glimpse of her prominent Iranian family; a complex mother and fascinating father, a mayor of Tehran who was jailed under the Shah.10:06 a.m.
  Guests
  Azar Nafisi: author of "Things I've Been Silent About." She is a Visiting Professor and the director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where she is a professor of aesthetics, culture, and literature. She is author of bestseller "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books."
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  About Azar Nafisi

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