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Iraq's national security adviser, Moaffak al-Rubaie, talks to Melissa Block about the violence that has engulfed Iraq after yesterday's bombing of the Shiite Golden Mosque in Samarra.

The Canadian and United States hockey teams are heading home from the Turin Olympics after tough matches against rivals in Europe. Canada was beaten 2-0 by Russia in the quarterfinals and the Americans lost 4-3 to Finland.

Two anesthesiologists threw the death penalty in California into turmoil this week when they walked out of the execution of a convicted murderer. The doctors objected when the state asked them to do more than observe the execution. Now death penalty experts wonder whether other states will have the same problem.

A last-minute win over Notre Dame keeps the University of Southern California's long unbeaten streak alive. The wild ending was just one of several in a big week of college football. John Feinstein and Steve Inskeep discuss the developments.

Studs Terkel has lived through and chronicled much of modern American history. He believes the positive changes brought by activist movements of the 20th century came from people working together.

In the midst of a CIA leak case, New York Times reporter Judith Miller refused to disclose her confidential source and as a result spent 85 days jail. She has now named Lewis Libby as her source. Staff at The New York Times have reportedly been frustrated by the paper's coverage of the episode. The investigation centers on Libby and Bush adviser Karl Rove.

The story of Danny and Annie Perasa — how they met, and how they've stayed in love — inspires many who hear it. At a recent ceremony to honor the couple, they gave new insights into their relationship.

A study in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that nearly 90 percent of adults and adolescents treated for AIDS in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince were alive after a year of triple-drug treatment, compared to only 30 percent before treatment was available.

Sometime today, millions of people will check out of this world and into the world of online games. And many of them will think nothing of pulling out real credit cards to buy virtual gold, swords — even humans.

The jazz icon turns 85 on Dec. 6. He'll celebrate with a concert in London where he will be joined by the London Symphony. There are several recent collections of his work: The Dave Brubeck Collection, which reissues five of his classic out-of-print LPs, and Dave Brubeck: Time Signature: A Career Retrospective.