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Frank Browning reports on Hungarian jazz bass player Aladar Pege. Mr. Pege has played through the dark days of Soviet repression until today. He remains a mythic figure among jazz fans.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on what awaits all those death row inmates in Illinois now that their death sentences have been commuted to life in prison.

The $41 Kobe beef patty at Manhattan's Old Homestead Restaurant is the most expensive hamburger in New York City. Is it worth it? Hear from NPR's Scott Simon and Brooke Gladstone, host of NPR's On the Media.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Calvin MacKenzie, professor of political science at Colby College, about the report of the bipartisan National Commission on the Public Service -- a high-level panel of government experts that have issued recommendations on major reforms for the federal government.

U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) recently introduced the Universal National Service Act of 2003, calling for mandatory military service. Commentator John Ridley agrees and says if the military comprised only rich white males then war would only be a last resort.

The first crop of students have begun a course of study at the Heartland Community College Electric Vehicle Energy Storage training program. Eventually they will go out to repair the growing number of electric vehicles in the community.

The Council on American Islamic Relations is calling for a complete and independent investigation of the killing in Caldwell County, about 40 miles from Austin.

Fidel Castro, now 76, is the subject of Ann Louise Bardach's new book Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. She believes rapprochement is near for Cubans and the stridently anti-Castro Cuban-American community in South Florida. Bardach speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Tom Gjelten.

The Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tenn., has an opening for a new duckmaster, to steer its ducks around the hotel, a tradition since the 1930s. Host Liane Hansen talks with Alan Villaverde, vice president of operations for the Peabody Hotel Group.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Maureen Mills from Berkeley, Calif. She listens to Weekend Edition on member stations KALW and KQED, both in San Francisco.)