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Friday, September 02, 2005

The Iraqi draft constitution is the subject of the latest Brian Lehrer Show reading project. With the country in the throes of sectarian violence, can the principles laid out in the draft constitution bring Iraqis together?

After the Storm

Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation and co-editor with Robert Borosage, Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right (Nation Books, 2004),
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James Jay Carafano , senior national security fellow, Heritage Foundation and author, Waltzing Into the Cold War (Texas A&M, 2002); After D-Day: ...

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Like Being In Steerage in the Titanic?

Leonard Pitts, columnist for the Miami Herald,

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Leon Wynter, Assistant professor of Journalism at Emerson College in Boston and author,American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business & The End of White America (Crown, 2002)
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Tricia Wachtendorf, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice ...

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The Iraqi Draft Constitution: A Brian Lehrer Show Reading Project

Adnan Pachachi, former foreign minister of Iraq,
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Tanya Gilly-Khailany, director of Democracy Programs at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a think tank,
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Fred Kaplan, writes the "War Stories" column for Slate,
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Reuel Marc Gerecht, Director of the Middle ...

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Mr. Quotable

There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns, but it's reasonably clear that in more than four years as sec def, Donald Rumsfeld has minted a snappy, perceptive logism for almost every occasion-- even if the occasion would appall him.

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