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Coming up on The Roundtable on Monday, May 12: Hour 1 - Tim Blagg of The Greenfield Recorder will inhabit the cozy news nook and present our headlines for the new week. And we will begin the first of a 2-part interview with Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid. Hour 2 - Lewis Alsamari is an actor who starred in the film United 93. But, his career came after a harrowing childhood and adolescence trying to escape from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. And Alan will strike up a conversation with the executive Vice President of Public Agenda – Jean Johnson - in the Congressional Corner. Hour 3 - And we will visit Leisureville with writer Andrew Blechman.

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