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By opening the Morganza floodway, the Army Corps of Engineers is sending Mississippi water through communities that thousands call home. But, even as they're forced to evacuate, few are blaming the Corps. Those who live along Louisiana's bayous aren't happy about having to fight the river, but say it's something they've grown up with and which they take very seriously.

Jim Nayder, host of Chicago Public Radio's "The Annoying Music Show" tells us why annoying music makes us laugh.

Lawyers for the head of the International Monetary Fund say Dominique Strauss-Kahn will fight the charges that he sexually assaulted a housekeeper at a luxury Manhattan hotel. The Frenchman remains in custody after a judge denied his request for bail.

In the two weeks since Osama Bin Laden was killed in a town 35 miles from the capital, Islamabad, relations between the U.S. and Pakistan have plummeted. Steve Inskeep talks to Anatol Lieven about his book "Pakistan: A Hard Country," and what he sees for Pakistan in a post-Osama bin Laden world.

Steve Inskeep has the Last Word in business.