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The Muslim world remains angry about remarks from Pope Benedict XVI. The pontiff quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who disparaged the prophet Muhammad. The Vatican says the pope is upset at the reaction.

Much of the Muslim world is in an uproar over remarks by Pope Benedict, that they say are offensive to Islam. Speaking in Germany Tuesday, the pope quoted from an ancient text that said the early spread of Islam had been accomplished by violence.

Let's compare our lists of summertime house guests here in San Diego!

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In September 2004, Chechen militants took more than 1,200 hostages in a school in Beslan, Russia. After nearly three days, explosions and gunfire ripped through the school, leaving more than 300 hostages dead. Two years later, questions remain about what happened and why.

In the aftermath of arrests in the alleged airline bombing plot, British Muslims warn that radicalization is a growing problem among their youth. The community is trying to reach out to its alienated young people by challenging extremist organizers. But the mainstream Muslims need government support to succeed.

I spent Father's Day with my preacher father's diaries, all twelve volumes of them. We were poor, truly poor, but when I was young in North Carolina, everyone was poor. Father's churches never could pay him more than one thousand dollars a year, along with free rent and promises of farm produce at harvest time and at hog-killing time.

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Gael Garcia Bernal plays a twenty-one year old sailor named Elvis Valderez who's just been honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy. With his mother no longer alive, Elvis heads back to his hometown of Corpus Christi to seek out the father he never knew. All he has is the name his mother told him - David Sandow. Elvis soon discovers that Sandow (William Hurt) is the well-respected minister of a Baptist church. He is married and has two teenage children. Elvis follows Sandow home after hearing his Sunday sermon. Elvis boldly but politely introduces himself as Sandow's son and waits to see what kind of response he'll get. Sandow doesn't deny being his father but he's uncomfortable with this reminder from his past so he instructs Elvis to stay away from his family. But Elvis is taken by Sandow's shy young daughter Malerie (Pell James) who in turn is attracted to this handsome stranger.

Ed Gordon talks with Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican, about his bid to become the Buckeye State's first African-American governor.