http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_859_Peter_Bourne.mp3 A negotiator helps secure the release of U.S. contractors overseas. Then, one man's passion for soda pop. Plone 2.0 http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_859_Peter_Bourne.mp3/logo.jpg http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_859_Peter_Bourne.mp3 <h4>THE NEGOTIATION BEHIND THE NEWS</h4><p class="imageleft"><img class="image-left" src="resolveuid/6d77c3158dac435a1f546d06b689bbdc" alt="Peter Bourne" height="100" width="100" />Peter Bourne</p><p>Three young Americans caught hiking near the border of Iran are still being held while their families wait for information. Peter Bourne has spent much of his career helping people like those Americans. After working in politics and diplomacy for years, he’d developed quite a rolodex of interesting contacts. He started working with then-Congressman Bill Richardson in 1995 and helped spring two American contractors from a prison in Iraq. As he tells Dick Gordon, international prisoners are rarely released on purely humanitarian grounds: politicians on both sides nearly always have some kind of quid pro quo to play.</p><p><a class="addbtn" href="http://www.publicradio.org/applications/formbuilder/user/form_display.php?form_code=608cc948ba9b" target="_self">Contact Us</a></p><h4>ONE SODA POP SHOP</h4><p class="imageleft"><img class="image-left" src="resolveuid/266cbe20884d5e40557169dcfcb6c9ae" alt="John Nese" height="100" width="100" />John Nese</p><p>John Nese has worked in a corner store since he was 5 years old. His father owned the store before he was born and it’s still in his family today. But the grocery store no longer sells things like bread, or milk. Nope, this store is all soda. But you won’t find Coke or Pepsi on these shelves. John stopped doing business with the big guys in 1995, right around the time he switched to all-soda. He only sells soda from specialty operations. Some of them are tiny. John tells Dick why he switched to only soda, banned Pepsi, and the things he’s learned along the way.</p><ul><li><a title="Soda Pop Shop" href="resolveuid/b97f7768851941dbfe1df4586c1db5b9" target="_self">See</a> images of the store</li><li><a href="http://www.sodapopstop.com/home.cfm" target="_self">Visit</a> the Soda Pop Stop Web site<br /></li></ul><p><a class="addbtn" href="http://www.publicradio.org/applications/formbuilder/user/form_display.php?form_code=608cc948ba9b" target="_self">Contact Us</a></p> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:00:00