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November 7, 2007

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Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, now Middle East Institute president, Wendy Chamberlin assesses the recent actions by President Musharraf. Legendary actor Ernest Borgnine says continuing to work helps him stay young.


Wendy Chamberlin

Wendy Chamberlin

Wendy Chamberlin

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A veteran diplomat, Wendy Chamberlin is president of the nonprofit Middle East Institute. She has more than 30 years of foreign service experience, including posts as U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Deputy High Commissioner for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Her assignments abroad also include tours in Laos, Morocco, Zaire and Malaysia. The only daughter of a Marine colonel, Chamberlin graduated from Northwestern University and Boston University.


 

Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine

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Actor Ernest Borgnine has been instantly recognizable throughout a 50-plus-year career in show business. He's appeared in hundreds of television and feature film productions, including the popular series, McHale's Navy, and the film, Marty, for which he won a Best Actor Academy Award. A World War II vet, Borgnine is in his ninth decade and still racking up credits, with voiceover work for The Simpsons and SpongeBob SquarePants and as star of the Hallmark Channel movie, A Grandpa for Christmas.