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• Defining and denying a genocide
  Turkey has rejected a resolution that it must recognize the killing of Armenians in 1915 as genocide as a pre-requisite for joining the European Union. Midmorning examines the political implications of acknowledging historical atrocities.October 28, 2005
• Lessons in peacemaking
  Peter Wallensteen, professor of peace and conflict reaserch at Uppsala University, speaks about his fellow Swede, former United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, at the Westminster Town Hall Forum in downtown Minneapolis.October 27, 2005
• One marine's view of the War on Terror
  Nathaniel Fick is only 28 years old, and he has already fought in two wars and published a memoir. Fick offered his perspective on the battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and spoke about his new book "One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer" in a recent appearance at the Commonwealth Club of California.October 26, 2005
• U.S. troop deaths in Iraq top 2,000
  The number of American troops who have died in Iraq hit the 2,000 mark on Tuesday, a grim reminder that the deadliest part of the war has come after the end of major combat operations over two years ago. Now that Iraqis have officially ratified their constitution, will the insurgency start to die down?October 26, 2005
• Unequal justice
  A new book reveals the injustice of the segregated U.S. Army in Europe where African American soldiers were executed at a higher rate than whites during World War II.October 26, 2005
• War, culture and counter-terrorism
  Afghanistan officials are examining allegations American soldiers burned the bodies of Taliban fighters. Cremation is a violation of Islamic law. A counter-terrorism expert says there are cultural lines that should not be crossed, even on the battleground.October 25, 2005
• Iraqis prepare to vote on new constitution
  Millions of Iraqis will vote this weekend in a constitutional referendum. Many hope the new constitution will unite the increasingly divided country.October 12, 2005
• Minnesota soldier killed in Iraq remembered for bravery
  The parents of Army Spc. Jacob Vanderbosch remembered their son for his bravery on Thursday, saying he wasn't afraid of anything.October 6, 2005
• President Bush lashes out against Islamist extremists
  In a speech before the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, President Bush accused Islamic militants of seeking to "enslave whole nations and intimidate the world." He said terrorists have made Iraq their main front. Midmorning broadcasts President Bush's speech and offers reaction to it.October 6, 2005
• Will Iraq's constitution unite the country, or divide it?
  Responding to intense criticism from the United Nations and a furious Sunni minority Wednesday, the Shiite-led Iraqi parliament made it once again possible for Sunni-dominated provinces to scuttle the country's constitution in an Oct. 15 referendum.October 5, 2005
• "A militant kind of piety"
  Best-selling religion writer Karen Armstrong says that the rise of modernity and the rise of religious fundamentalism are linked. In a speech Saturday at St. Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis, the former nun said that fundamentalist religious movements were both enabled by modernity and arose as a backlash against modernity.October 4, 2005
• Do the Arab media feed anti-Americanism?
  Middle East expert Shibley Telhami says there's no doubt that anti-Americanism is on the rise in the Arab World. But Telhami says that people who blame Arab media outlets like Al Jazeera have missed the mark. Telhami has done extensive polling and found almost no connection between media consumption and public opinion in the Arab world.September 29, 2005
• Shared sacrifice?
  President Bush has said the war in Iraq is worth the sacrifice. But just who is sacrificing what? Midmorning examines the history of sacrifice on the home front.September 26, 2005
• What needs to happen in Iraq?
  President Bush repeated his pledge Thursday to not to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq as some of his critics have suggested. "To leave Iraq now would be to repeat the costly mistakes of the past that led to the attacks of September the 11th, 2001," he said.September 23, 2005
• Seeing the war through Iraqi eyes
  Many American journalists spent the beginning of the Iraq war embedded with the troops storming toward Baghdad. But Arab-American reporter Anthony Shadid was already in the Iraqi capital, and with his fluent command of the Arabic language he was able to get a different perspective on the war. Shadid spoke about his new book, "Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War," recently at the Commonwealth Club of California.September 21, 2005

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