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Slate's War Stories: 9-11 Report's Highs and Lows

NPR | By Madeleine Brand

Published July 23, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Slate military affairs columnist Fred Kaplan talks with NPR's Madeleine Brand about the final report of the 9-11 Commission. He takes issue with the commission's assertion that the terrorist attacks happened because of a "failure of imagination."

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Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).

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