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Lisa talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the Navy's decision to convene a public court of inquiry to investigate the sinking of a Japanese fishing boat by a U.S. submarine earlier this month. Nine passengers of the fishing boat are missing and presumed dead.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on former President Bill Clinton's defense of his pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich.

More than 900 Kurdish refugees are stranded on the coast of France. They paid thousands of dollars to smugglers who ran their boat aground and then abandoned the would-be immigrants. NPR's Sarah Chayes talks about the fate of the refugees and the experience of hiding in a small boat to escape one's homeland.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says President George W. Bush finds himself in a tougher spot than his father was in when it comes to dealing with Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Richard Atkinson, president of the the University of California system, about his push to ban the SAT as an admission requirement for UC schools. Atkinson hopes to replace the aptitude test with a test based on curriculum.

President Bush adddressed an audience at the dedication of a museum devoted to the Oklahoma City bombing, the deadliest terrorist attack to take place on U.S. soil. Today marks the opening of the Oklahoma City National Memorial Center.

The West may not be best when it comes to selling products in Russian. As NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow there's a trend to advertise that products are made at home.

Linda Wertheimer talks to Linda Nochlin, professor of modern art at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU about the painter Balthus. The artist whose real name was Balthasar Klossowski died in Switzerland yesterday at the age of 92.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the wallop California's power crisis has given to small energy producers - who make electricity from renewable resources.

Linda Wertheimer talks with New York Times reporter Al Baker about four young men who've been charged as eco-terrorists in New York. The FBI believes that the four burned down houses in new developments to protest sprawl and that they are apart of the Earth Liberation Front. A question remains whether they are terrorists or teenage vandals.