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Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and is Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. His column appears regularly in The Jerusalem Post and other newspapers around the globe. As a student Pipes spent six years studying abroad, including three years in Egypt. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the US Naval War College, and Pepperdine University. Pipes has published in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, National Review, Time, and The Weekly Standard, among others. More than a hundred American newspapers have carried his articles, including The Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Providing home enthusiasts nationwide with award-winning programming, Russell Morash has been called the father of "how-to" and "know-how" television. As the founder of *This Old House* in 1979, he introduced the premier home improvement television series to America and continues to inspire a legion of homeowners who never knew they could do it themselves. Prior to tackling home renovation, in 1963 Russ teamed up with a budding cookbook author with an unmistakable accent and a marvelous sense of humor to create *The French Chef* with Julia Child. For the next 30 years Russ and Julia created a number of cooking classics for television, which continue to represent the gold standard of that genre. While Russ stepped down as executive producer and director of *This Old House* and its addition *Ask This Old House* in 2004, he was not content to retire completely from television. Today he still serves as executive producer and director of *The New Yankee Workshop*, now in its 18th season, which features the craftsmanship of host Norm Abram. Russ, whose forebears were carpenters and shipwrights, conceived the idea of *This Old House* in 1976 while remodeling his own home. The first 13-week *This Old House* series, featuring the renovation of a Victorian home in the Dorchester area of Boston, set a new ratings record for WGBH when it was broadcast locally in 1979. The series aired nationally on PBS the following season and quickly became a perennial favorite.