may comes to the profession honestly, meaning in san francisco where she was raised her mother, lonny dingwas a documentary filmmaker, her works among other things dealt with detention and military service of japanese-americans in world war ii. her father who is here tonight has a fascinating background, he's a labor activist, a retired postal worker and at one point was a reporter for "ramparts" magazine. may studied classical arabic at berkeley and later at the american university in cairo. she's worked out of cnn's rome bureau and also their beijing bureau as a freelance editor and cameraman covering everything, the seizure of grozny and chechnya, the 1999 earthquake in turkey and the nato bombing of belgrade. to her left is c.j. chivers of "the new york times." chris is simply put, the war correspondent's war correspondent. he is known for his courage, resourcefulness on the battlefield, knowledge of tactics and strategy and finally for his expertise in weaponry, in particular the ubiquitous ak-47 of which he has written a definitive biography, a fascinating and important book called s