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• European attitudes toward the U.S. decline
  A new poll shows foreign attitudes towards the U.S. continue to erode. In some countries Osama Bin Laden is more popular than George W. Bush. Most Europeans believe their government should distance themselves from the U.S.March 18, 2004
• Life on the homefront
  A South Dakota family makes the best of life at home while mom serves with the National Guard in Iraq.March 18, 2004
• Small town buries one of its own
  In Ellsworth, Wisconsin, flags are at half staff. Schools will be let out early Thursday, and a couple thousand people are expected for the funeral of one of its residents, an Army reservist, who was killed recently in Iraq. Bert Hoyer, 23, was a specialist with the 652nd Engineer Company, based in Ellsworth. Hoyer was building bridges in Iraq when he was killed by a bomb blast.March 17, 2004
• The global war on terror
  Police reportedly now suspect at least six Moroccans took part in the Madrid train bombings, and the United States is assisting a growing international investigation that is increasingly focused on Islamic militants possibly linked to al-Qaida. Gary Eichten and his guest discuss the latest on international terrorism and terrorist groups-- in Europe and beyond.March 17, 2004
• Inner workings of Bush's war cabinet
  They call themselves the Vulcans, and they are the architects of President Bush's war against terrorism. A scholar of presidential foreign policy suggests the top level advisors of Bush's war cabinet are mostly in agreement on the use of U.S. military force to assert American ideals.March 15, 2004
• Policing a nation in transition
  Gun battles in Haiti between U.S. Marines have claimed the lives of two more Haitians. As the U.S. steps up enforcement of the peace, questions remain about the importance of Haiti to overall security in the region.March 11, 2004
• Iraqi leaders sign interim constitution
  On Monday, Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council signed an interim constitution which will guide the country until a permanent version is drawn up next year. The signing was delayed because of objections from Iraq's most revered Shi'ite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The cleric issued a statement saying he was still unhappy with the document.March 10, 2004
• ACLU director at the National Press Club
  Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, speaks about the detentions at Guantanamo Bay and related government actions since 9/11 that he says go beyond the fight against terrorism and threaten the freedom of all Americans.March 9, 2004
• Why do they hate us?
  In her book, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, Yale law professor Amy Chua turns inside out one of America's most self-evident truths: that the combination of democracy and free markets is necessarily a good thing. The best-seller provides osme of the most lucid and compelling answers to the qeustion that Americans have been asking since September 2001: "Why do they hate us?"March 8, 2004
• Security in an anxious age
  The concern for our security has created new government agencies and new laws. But do any of these measures protect us? And how do they change the boundaries between our private and public selves?March 2, 2004
• The threat of biological warfare
  Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent, Judith Miller, on the threat of biological warfare. She is the author of Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War.February 25, 2004
• Who can govern Iraq?
  A new U.N. report says Iraq could hold elections in eight months if preparations get under way now. But the U.S. plans to hand over control of the country in June.February 24, 2004
• Jimmy Carter speaks in Minnesota
  Former President Jimmy Carter says Americans aren't doing enough to help people in developing countries. Carter was in Minnesota this weekend to speak at the annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum at St. Olaf College in Northfield.February 23, 2004
• Carter calls for peaceful solutions to world conflict
  Former President Jimmy Carter says the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was completely unwarranted. Carter spoke Saturday at the 16th annual "Nobel Peace Prize Forum" at St. Olaf College in Northfield. Carter was president from 1977-1981, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts. Carter also said the U.S. should worker harder to peaceably resolve conflicts with other nations.February 21, 2004
• Former U.S. Ambassador Galbraith on violence in Iraq
  A City Club of Cleveland speech by former U.S. Ambassador Peter Galbraith, who says today's violence in Iraq is rooted in the the violence and looting that broke out after the fall of Baghdad. Galbraith charges that the Bush administration could have and should have been prepared for that "day after Baghdad."February 17, 2004

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