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After weeks of quarreling, Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders in Iraq settled on last-minute changes in the draft constitution. A professor of history and a former state department officer who advised the chairman of the constitutional committee discuss the new…

Conservatives continue to quarrel over the judicial qualifications of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, current White House counsel and a close friend of President Bush. Two guests discuss their differing opinions of Miers.

Angela Merkel, the leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Party, became Germany's chancellor after three weeks of negotiations with the former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic Party.