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Religion and Warfare: Does God Choose Sides?
The Fort Hood shootings have raised disturbing questions about Islamic radicalism in the US military. What about Evangelical Christianity? Does it pose its own kind of dangers, especially with US troops on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan? Also, the first EU president, and Oprah Winfrey calls it quits — at the same time she plans for the future.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenThe Fort Hood shootings have raised disturbing questions about Islamic radicalism in the US military. What about Evangelical Christianity? Does it pose its own kind of dangers, especially with US troops on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan? Also, the first EU president, and Oprah Winfrey will be leaving daytime television, but she's not going away. We hear about the impact on broadcast TV now and cable TV in the future.
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3 storiesThe First EU President: Van Rompuy Who-ee?
The European Union has selected its first full-time president, and it's not Tony Blair or anyone else who might give the EU a higher profile on the world stage. David Rennie is EU Correspondent for Economist magazine.
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A Senate committee is conducting a high profile investigation into the Fort Hood shootings, and the Pentagon is investigating the extent of Islamic radicalism in the military.
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Nobody was surprised today when Oprah Winfrey announced that her daytime-television talk-show will come to an end about two years from now. What will that mean for the broadcast landscape and for cable TV? Kim Masters is columnist for the Daily Beast.com and host of The Business, produced by KCRW.
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