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• Iraqi native shares concerns about homeland
  Abbas Mehdi, a former Iraqi cabinet member and St. Cloud State University professor predicts big problems for Iraq as thousands of refugees begin streaming back into that country. Mehdi recently returned from an extended stay in Iraq.November 30, 2007
• Private military contractors under scrutiny
  Blackwater Worldwide is perhaps one of the higher-profile private military contractors in Iraq, but they're not the only one. Blackwater's involvement in the killing of 17 civilians in Iraq and the subsequent investigations highlight the problem holding soldiers for hire accountable when things go wrong.Midmorning, November 30, 2007
• DFL McCollum visiting the Middle East
  Minnesota DFL congresswoman Betty McCollum is in Damascus to stress U.S. concern about the welfare of displaced Iraqis in Syria and Jordan.November 28, 2007
• Minnesotan working as security contractor killed in Iraq
  A former sheriff's deputy from Chisago County in Minnesota has been killed while working as a security contractor in Iraq.November 27, 2007
• The cost of covering war
  War takes a toll on the people who immerse themselves in it, the reporters and photographers who chronicle strife. Janine di Giovanni has spent time in many war-torn places: Sarajevo, Gaza, Iraq. She talks about how covering war changes perspectives and how having a family helps her balance the grimness of her profession.Midmorning, November 27, 2007
• Brokaw struggles to sum up the '60s
  Retired NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw dubbed the Americans who fought and won World War II the "Greatest Generation," and the name stuck. But Brokaw can't come up with a single slogan to sum up the subject of his latest book: the generation that came of age during the tumultuous 1960s.Midday, November 26, 2007
• Midmorning Book Club: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'
  After World War I, weariness and the deaths of so many young men inspired a classic, published in 1929. The novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front," and the 1930 movie version convinced many people in Germany and around the world that World War I should be the last war.Midmorning, November 23, 2007
• The rise of al Qaeda
  New Yoker staff writer Lawrence Wright, whose book "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" won the Pulitzer Prize this year, spoke about the roots of the infamous terrorist organization recently at the Town Hall Los Angeles.Midday, November 20, 2007
• Signs of hope in Iraq?
  While 2007 was bloody year in Iraq, both Iraqi and American deaths have dropped significantly in recent months. The U.S. military says shootings, bombings and other killings are down 55 percent since June. Can we make the current lull in violence permanent?Midday, November 20, 2007
• Iraq war funding and the presidential campaign
  Democrats in Congress failed on the last opportunity this year to set a timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq. Both parties walk a careful line between support for Bush Administration policies and being seen as denying funds for troops.Midmorning, November 19, 2007
• U of M students present child abduction case to president of South Sudan
  A group of University of Minnesota students campaigning for the release of two kidnapped children in Sudan scored a major victory recently, when they were able to meet with the president of Southern Sudan.November 16, 2007
• Hundreds of students skip class to protest Iraq war
  The protesters called for the immediate return of the troops, a diversion of funds from the war effort to education and an end to military recruiting in high schools.November 16, 2007
• Pentagon resolving Minnesota National Guard cases
  Upon returning from Iraq this year, nearly half of the soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division discovered they weren't eligible for full education benefits under the GI Bill. More than 600 soldiers have had their eligibility restored so far.November 16, 2007
• Nathan Englander writes about 'the dirty war'
  Nathan Englander's new book "The Ministry of Special Cases" is set against Argentina's 'dirty war.' It was the time in the late 1970s when thousands of people disappeared -- kidnapped and murdered by the military junta. Englander says the book grew out of a trip to Jerusalem.November 15, 2007
• Leading conservative says America faces a 'new world'
  William Kristol, founding editor of the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard and an early proponent of the Iraq war, says 9/11 ushered in a new chapter of American history that calls for a new approach to government.Midday, November 15, 2007

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