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President Bush, back from a visit to Iraq, says violence there will never be eliminated but that a security crackdown and new intelligence on terrorism are contributing to "steady progress."

Host Tom Fudge speaks to Professor Janet Smarr about UCSD's new lecture series titled "The City." The lecture series will ask, "How do we envision the city, and how have those images changed across t

Filmmaker Pascale Ferran streamlines the plot to eliminate peripheral elements and to focus narrowly on the two lovers. She employs scant dialogue and instead chooses to rely mostly on nature and the actions of the characters to weave her tale. Yet despite the more efficient narrative structure, Ferran drags out the story to nearly three hours in length--but the extended length yields little benefit. Ferran lacks the eye for detail that could make these slow moving scenes compelling. In order to lay the groundwork for Constance's affair, Ferran lingers over her daily routines and lack of anything interesting to do. The fact that very little happens for quite a long time made me think of a film in which a filmmaker was able to engross us with the mundane details of daily routines

What are the rights of employees and employers, and how have those rights changed as technology becomes a staple of the American work day? We talk about the important and oftentimes confusing legal is

Every day dozens of bodies turn up at the Baghdad morgue. They are bound, mutilated by torture and shot. Lately, though, sectarian violence has taken on a broader, more systematic form. Some say it is a strategy by militant Shiite groups to drive Sunni Arabs out of the Iraqi capital.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Diego Gutierrez's documentary film "The Valley of the Dog Songs" captures the experience of San Diego based musician Phil Beaumont as he writes songs to capture the inspiration of six young artists.

A year ago, the U.N. Security Council authorized targeted sanctions against Sudanese officials, and others responsible for atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region. But some U.N. diplomats accuse the U.S. of holding up talks on a list of people to be targeted by the sanctions.

Charles Ferguson comes to film with a background in information technology and after having served as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution. His approach is less concerned with finding a clever cinematic approach to the material and more interested in trying to find the best, most cogent way to present a dense amount of complex material.

FEMA releases new federal advisories and recommendations about which areas of New Orleans are vulnerable to flooding in the future. The advisories will require that many houses be raised several feet to qualify for insurance. Residents plan to use the guide to decide whether to rebuild or relocate.