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NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr, having read a new report from the CIA, wonders if the foreign policies of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice will be applicable to the world they might face.

North Carolina's 14 electors gathered in Raleigh at noon to dutifully cast their ballots for George W. Bush. They were subject to some eleventh hour arm-twisting by Al Gore supporters, but to no avail. Bush won 56 percent of the state vote, and state law bars electors from voting for someone other than the person to whom they are pledged. That law was passed after the 1968 election, in which an elector pledged to Richard Nixon voted for George Wallace. Congress will officially count the 538 votes from around the nation on January 5.

Noah talks with Dan Roth, who's a senior editor at Fortune Magazine about why the magazine voted The Container Store the best company to work for. It's the second year in a row the magazine has done so.

The Web is disproving the notion that the larger the project, the more managers, or "layers of control" are needed. Instead people are able to publish a newsletter, a book, start a company, even send mail, without having to get some sort of permission first. Commentator David Weinberger says this will ultimately change the way we think about authority.

Robert talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden who's in Jerusalem about election politics in Israel, and the prospects of a return to power by former right-wing prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Bujanovac, in southern Serbia, where ethnic Albanian militants have been waging an insurgency. Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica is demanding that the United Nations and NATO peacekeepers stop the insurgents from crossing from Kosovo into the buffer zone along the border with Serbia proper. At the same time, Kostunica has taken steps to improve relations with the majority ethnic Albanian population in the Presevo Valley. The U.N. Security Council meets tomorrow to discuss the issue.

Before departing Texas for Washington, D.C., Bush named Stanford professor Condoleezza Rice his national security adviser and Justice Alberto Gonzales to the White House counsel's job. Rice, who served as a national security aide in the administration of former President Bush, is the second black to be named to George W. Bush's foreign policy team. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Lisa talks with social critic Wendy Kaminer about the use of the prayer and the name of god in this week's speeches by President elect George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore.

A commentary from Gwen Glenn, a Washington, DC based Journalist. As an African- American, she shares why she took the past five weeks of election confusion very personally.

Yesterday's tornadoes were one of the worst tragedies in Alabama history says Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. Twelve people died and dozens were injured as twisters touched down in four different parts of the state. The Tuscaloosa area suffered most of the fatalities. Butler Cain reports.

Host Lisa Simeone visits the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona where a new exhibit chronicles the history of Indian Boarding Schools. Starting in 1878 thousands of Indian children were sent, often by force, to boarding schools, in the hope the the schools would teach the children to 'be American.' Lisa talks with Margaret Archuletta, the curator of the exhibit, along with Brenda Child, historical advisor to the exhibit and author of the book, Boarding School School Seasons.

Nearly ten million voters in the west African nation of Ghana went to the polls on December 7th to elect a new president. The election has been praised by monitors as free and fair and touted as a shining example of democracy on the continent. President Jerry Rawlings, the outgoing leader, is stepping down after 19 years in power. Unlike many leaders across Africa, he is adhering to the constitutional limit of a two term presidency. Host Lisa Simeone talks with Chris Fomunyoh who monitors elections for the National Democratic Institute.