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February 28, 2008

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Pulitizer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills discusses the passing of William F. Buckley, Jr. Actress-singer Raven-Symone talks about growing up in front of the camera and making the transition to adulthood.


Garry Wills

Garry Wills

Garry Wills

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Historian reflects on William F. Buckley Jr.'s life and how he shaped the conservative movement. (1:34)
 
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Historian Garry Wills is the author of more than 20 books, including What the Gospels Meant, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln at Gettysburg and studies of George Washington, Richard Nixon, the Kennedy family, Ronald Reagan and religion in America. An Atlanta native, Wills studied for the priesthood, earned his PhD in the classics from Yale and taught at Johns Hopkins. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University.


 

Raven-Symone

Raven-Symone

Raven-Symone

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Since starring on The Cosby Show at age 3, Raven-Symoné has established herself as a brand. As an actress, she's starred in several films and landed her own TV show, That's So Raven, which became the Disney Channel's highest-rated and longest-running series and spawned successful product spinoffs. As a singer, she was the youngest person ever to sign a recording contract with MCA Records, has toured with 'N Sync and impressed critics and audiences alike. She's next up in the film, College Road Trip.