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President Bush has made it an agenda item to provide federal grants to faith-based service organizations. NPR's Wade Goodwyn travels to Lufkin, Texas, and looks at how one faith-based partnership works.

NPR's Bob Mondello takes a look at Faithless, the latest in the 35 year collaboration between filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and actress/director Liv Ullman.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson about the continuing controversy over the pardons and commutations announced by then-President Clinton.

Last week we asked listeners to suggest items they use every day which are poorly designed or could use some improvement. We'll listen to some of the responses.

This past week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states are not obliged to pay damages to disabled state employees under federal law. Lisa Simeone talks to Deborah Kaplan, executive director of the World Institute on Disability, based in Oakland, California, and Peter Blanck, director of the Law, Health Policy and Disability Center at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City.

When the German capital was moved to Berlin, a home and office were needed to be built for the Chancellor. The plans were approved by Helmut Kohl, but his successor Gerhard Schroeder has hinted he finds the massive glass-and-steel structure too grand. And now the public is feeling the same way. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

The National Basketball Association has players from Africa and Eastern Europe, even Australia, but not from China. That, however, might change soon. NPR's Rob Gifford has a profile of a seven foot six giant of a basketball player who has the best shot at being the first Chinese in the NBA.

Scott reads letters from listeners.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran, in Indonesia. Thousands of refugees are fleeing the island of Borneo amid skirmishes between soldiers and police.

Arguments began yesterday in Microsoft's appeal of the court order that the company be split apart. NPR's Larry Abramson reports on the proceedings.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Khidhir Hamza, former head of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program. After defecting from Iraq, he wrote a memoir -- in collaboration with Jeff Stein -- called Saddam's Bombmaker, in which he tells how close Iraq came to building a working bomb.