And who should lead that effort? PEW Vice President for Policy Analysis and the report's co-author, Stephen Seidel,says the federal government should lead, as the nation's largest landowner and the guardian of its natural resources, national parks and highways, bridges and dams.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

The British newspaper the Guardian reported Monday that altering the role of Mr.Karzai, who is accused by some western officials of tolerating corruption and mismanagement, is one possible element of a revised Afghan policy to be announced by the Obama administration.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Iran's Guardian Council also approved the candidacy of President Ahmadinejad and Mohsen Rezai, former head of the Revolutionary Guards.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Mister Rogers says the Manchester Guardian newspaper used it in nineteen seventy-eight.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

Mr.Moussavi has called on Iran's Guardian Council, which oversees elections, to cancel the results of Friday's vote.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

The singer's mother, Katherine Jackson, filed court papers on Monday, asking to be named the permanent guardian of Jackson's three children and the administrator of his estate.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

Clinton says the broad skepticism among Iranians about the electoral process and the apparent re-election of President Ahmadinejad is unlikely to be quelled by Monday's announcement by Iran's Guardian Council that a partial recount upheld the originally-announced outcome.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29