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  • Within Islamic countries, many Muslims are OK using the term "Islamic extremists," but when Westerners use the phrase, it could be seen as an insult.
  • President Obama sets off on a two-day campaign trip to Colorado Wednesday. He's looking to preserve his slim lead in the state. Republican challenger Mitt Romney was in Colorado last week trying to recapture the state that George W. Bush won twice. Obama's team has opened 32 field offices around the state --three times as many as Romney.
  • George W. Bush opens his presidential library this week in Dallas, where an interactive game gives visitors a taste of presidential decision-making. From one angle, Decision Points Theater is a cool learning tool. From another, it raises the question: Could an American president benefit from crowdsourcing?
  • Following November's losses, there's wide agreement among Republicans that the party has to change. A former George W. Bush speechwriter says one model to study is how the Democrats bounced back after a similar political exile in the late 1980s.
  • NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Ambassador Chris Hill, who served as an assistant secretary of state under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, about all the changes.
  • No matter where in the globe former President Bush's pursuits took him, he circled back every year, as if tethered, to Walker's Point — his family's estate in Kennebunkport, Maine.
  • Teachers in West Virginia are entering their eighth day of a statewide strike. At issue is a pay increase that teachers say does not keep up with the cost of living. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Amber Glennon, who is the Director of Operations at the Boys and Girls Club of the Eastern Panhandle in Martinsburg, W.Va.
  • The former Florida governor earlier this year announced a team of foreign policy advisers that included at least two well-known members of the Rumsfeld-Cheney team in the second Bush White House.
  • NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with Republican Richard Viguerie of the Conservative Headquarters and David Frum, former George W. Bush speechwriter about what is happening with the Republicans.
  • 25-year-old rapper Shelem sees his latest project as an artistic watershed for him: The production is slick, it has a solid hook and the lyrics show a writer who's continuing to advance in his art.
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