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Gary Schroen is one of the CIA's most respected and experienced spies. Two days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, his bosses handed him a new mission targeting Osama bin Laden: "bring his head back in a box." Days later, Schroen and his team were on a plane.

The most reliable fund raising device in this folksy city is the exorbitantly priced dinner for any good cause - staged under the guise of honoring some willing citizen whom no one wishes to offend by failing to send a check or to attend. Groups like Meals on Wheels, and Planned Parenthood.

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Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire witnessed the killing and chaos of the Hutu/Tutsi conflict in Rwanda. Scott Simon talks to Dallaire about his experience, which is chronicled in his book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.

Four hundred San Diego women are gathering for early breakfast in the cathedral calm of The Salk Institute. The power of these women is one of those stories that slip up and startle us in San Diego. They call themselves Athenas. They have worked their way to top management ranks in San Diego.

Athenas

I found that peculiar, says Hatcher who came to San Diego earlier this month to promote his film, then I realized that was the time that was when women were finally allowed to play women and Kynaston was out of a job. I thought this could be a good story about a man whos caught in a huge cultural sea change and whose identity is turned upside down because the one thing he does really well, the one thing that he identifies himself by, is taken away from him.

New York City marks the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with moments of silence at ground zero and a light show at sunset. In Virginia, bells toll at the Pentagon for the 184 people killed there. Hear NPR's Luke Burbank.

President Bush begins a four-state campaign tour Friday with a stop in Missouri, ending the traditional silence usually observed when an opponent holds a political convention. The president's statements indicate he's going on the offensive against Sen. John Kerry. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Don Gonyea.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has a new look, thanks to a suspected facelift and a month-long holiday. But as NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, Berlusconi's got plenty to frown about -- he's being accused of using his vast media empire to shut down critics and enact laws to protect him and his business partners from prosecution.