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Ivo Daalder, senior fellow of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, talks with Michele Norris about the doctrine of pre-emptive war. Daalder is in Princeton, N.J., where he is attending a conference on the pre-emption doctrine.

The Pentagon issues a new rule that will prevent certain evidence from being used in military trials of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. The rule bars the use of any evidence created under conditions of torture.

Hodge-podge is a word that comes from a rotten pot. It's derived from a term for mixed-up Scottish stew. Hodge-podge is also another in a long line of english reduplications, like the word honky-tonk.

Zacarias Moussaoui offers surprising testimony at the sentencing phase of his trial. The confessed terrorist told the court he was supposed to hijack a fifth plane on the day of the Sept. 11 attacks and fly it into the White House.

At 48, Stewart Selman learned he had a malignant brain tumor. Faced with a grave diagnosis, Selman offered to keep an audio diary of his final year, leaving a record for his family. It took time, his wife says, before she could hear it.

American reporter Jill Carroll was set free Thursday, nearly three months after she was kidnapped in a bloody ambush that killed her translator. She said she had been treated well.

The most frightening thing the United States could do to Iran, short of attacking it, is to leave Iraq, says New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. The second most frightening thing for Iran, he says, would be a U.S. success in Iraq.

American reporter Jill Carroll is released unharmed in Iraq, three months after she was kidnapped. "I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped," Carroll said in an interview on Baghdad television. Her captors had demanded that female detainees be freed or Carroll would be killed.

In the immigration debate, the most sweeping claims deal with jobs and pay. Some say that illegal immigrants work in jobs that Americans are unwilling to take. Others claim that illegal immigrants drive down wages for blue-collar workers. Economists say the reality is a lot more complicated.

Today's Classical Detour finds us in the NPR studios with The Amelia Trio: violinist Anthea Kreston, cellist Jason Duckles and pianist Reiko Aizawa. The group plays The St. Petersburg Waltz by Meredith Monk, a piece Duckles says gives the impression of "a comfortable loneliness."