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Archive for August 16 - 20, 2004
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Monday, Aug. 16, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Minnesota representatives get a firsthand look at the Middle East
Two of Minnesota's U.S. Congressional Representatives, returning from an eight-day tour of Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries, share their impressions of the situation there.
Guests:
Reps. Betty McCollum, a Democrat from the 4th District, and Mark Kennedy, a Republican from the 6th District.

Related Links:
Document MPR News: Rep. Mark Kennedy
Document MPR News: Rep. Betty McCollum
Document MPR News: Kennedy, McCollum leave Iraq with different impressions
Document Web Resource: Mark Kennedy's Web site
Document Web Resource: Betty McCollum's Web site
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Climate of Uncertainty
Not long ago, scientists discovered that the Earth's climate is capable of changing abruptly, as if a switch were flipped, instead of slowly over hundreds or thousands of years. In the past, this type of abrupt change may have caused droughts, floods and even regional cooling. Could global warming, which is gradually heating the planet, bring the Earth to another such "tipping point?"
Related Links:
Document American RadioWorks online
Document MPR News: Environment
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio A look at the Olympics
With the Olympics now well underway in Athens, Greece, we take a broad look at the 2004 Summer Games and the Minnesotans competing in them.
Guests:
Jay Weiner is a Staff Writer covering the Olympics for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Related Links:
Document MPR News: Sports & Leisure
Document Web Resource: Midmorning: Getting into mental shape for the Olympics
Document Web Resource: The Star Tribune online
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Some 23 years after Ronald Reagan made her the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor occupies a uniquely powerful position. Because she happens to sit at the ideological center of an otherwise closely divided court, O'Connor often has the privilege of casting the vote that makes the difference between a majority opinion and a dissenting one. She sat down with Walter Isaacson, the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, earlier this month to discuss her biography and her jurisprudence on issues from affirmative action to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Related Links:
Document MPR News: Law & Justice
Document Web Resource: Midmorning: Supreme Court is asked to end juvenile executions
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Presidential politics
With President George W. Bush coming to Minnesota for the third time in a little over a month, we talk with one of our political analysts about the state of the 2004 presidential campaign. Both the president and Democratic candidate John Kerry are campaigning unusually hard both in Minnesota and in swing states across the nation in what Arizona Sen. John McCain has called "the bitterest, most unsavory campaign in the nation's history."
Guests:
Larry Jacobs, professor and director of the 2004 Elections Project at the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute's Center for the Study of Politics.

Related Links:
Document Campaigns go high tech to get out the vote
Document Rochester gets a dose of presidential politics - without any candidates
Document MPR News: Campaign 2004
Document Web Resource: Presidential politics in western Wisconsin
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio British Jihad
There is a war raging for the soul of Islam. It is a global war whose frontline extends into the heart of Britain. There, radical preachers extol the romance of martyrdom to a generation of immigrant youngsters unsure of their place in Modern European society. What is radical Islam's appeal to young British Muslims? Why did some September 11th hijackers find Britain a convenient staging post for the attacks? How did two middle-class Muslims, college kids, end up on suicide missions in Israel? Inside Out's Senior Correspondent Michael Goldfarb explores Jihad's British front in this new documentary from WBUR.
Related Links:
Document MPR News: National Affairs
Document Web Resource: Inside Out Documentaries
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Life after the 9-11 Commission
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States officially closes up shop on Friday. We talk with a Minnesota native who served as senior counsel to the commission about what's happened in the four weeks since the release of "The 9/11 Commission Report" and what will eventually become of its recommendations.
Guests:
9-11 Commission Senior Counsel and team leader Michael Hurley, who is a Minnesota native. Hurley is an attorney who has worked in intelligence at the National Security Council and with the special forces in Afghanistan.

Related Links:
Document MPR News: National Affairs
Document Web Resource: 9-11 Commission online
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Ask the president of MPR
On August 10, Minnesota Public Radio announced that St. Olaf College had accepted its bid of $10.5 million for the college's radio station, WCAL, also known as Classical 89.3. Minnesota Public Radio President Bill Kling joins Gary Eichten to answer questions from MPR listeners about buying WCAL and a range of other topics.
Guests:
Bill Kling is the president and CEO of Minnesota Public Radio.

Related Links:
Document Statement by Bill Kling, CEO and President of Minnesota Public Radio, About the Decision to Purchase WCAL
Document Minnesota Public Radio to purchase WCAL
Document Web Resource: Bill Kling speaks with Marianne Combs
Document Web Resource: WCAL online
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Friday, Aug. 20, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio A farewell to Sandra Gardebring
Minnesota is losing one of its lifelong public servants to the sandy beaches and highly selective public universities of Southern California. Sandra Gardebring has chaired the Metropolitan Council, headed up the Department of Human Services, served as commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, sat on the state Supreme Court and currently holds the post of vice president for university relations at the U of M. She has announced that she's leaving Minnesota's flagship university to take a similar position at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. She talks about her decision and her long and varied career in public service.
Guests:
Sandra Gardebring has accepted the position of vice president for institutional advancement at California Polytechnic State University.

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Document MPR project: Universal U
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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio The 9/11 Commission: Where Do We Go Now?
Following the release of their final report, the members of the 9-11 Commission fanned out across the country to build popular support for their recommendations. Two of the commissioners, Slade Gorton and Richard Ben Veniste, spoke earlier this week at the Commonwealth Club of California.
Related Links:
Document Web Resource: The 9-11 Commission online
Document Web Resource: The Commonwealth Club online
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
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