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Commentator Kevin Phillips examines the rivalry between President Bush and Senator John McCain. He wonders if McCain can give the Republican Party the second chance they'll need in 2004.

Sports commentator John Feinstein talks to host Bob Edwards about last night's NCAA championship basketball game between Duke and Arizona State.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports Mexico's President Vicente Fox has proposed an ambitious plan for economic development in the south of Mexico. NAFTA -- the North American Free Trade Agreement -- has so-far only benefited the northern part of the country. In the south, Fox has proposed building a trade corridor to attract factories and investment. But workers in the south are worried about being exploited. And Zapatista Indians say the plan will disrupt their way of life.

NPR's David Welna reports on his visit to West Houston this week with a Republican member of the House, Texas' John Culberson. Culberson represents a safe Republican district, one that first elected President Bush's father to Congress. But Culberson won the seat only five months ago, and he used the congressional recess -- and a town hall meeting -- to share views with his constituents.

Two years after the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer sat down this week to talk with some high school students and their parents about how the incident affected their lives then and now. The students talk about safety in their schools, and about the unwritten rules about when and when not to tell adults about another kid. Parents talk about what worries them most and least. And they discuss what they do to try to stay in touch with their children's lives.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports after a week of intense Israeli-Palestinian violence in the Gaza Strip, some Palestinians are beginning to question whether their armed rebellion will succeed against the overwhelming firepower of the Israelis. But many Palestinians still say there's no alternative.

President Bush had a series of photo ops today, on the eve of the summit. Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Don Gonyea about the President's agenda at the summit.

Anthony Kuhn reports American negotiators from the U.S. - China talks on the April 1 midair collision returned home as Chinese President Jiang Zemin met with the family of the Chinese fighter pilot who died in the collision. Adding to U.S. - China tensions are the continued arrests of Chinese-Americans who are visiting China and next week's decision on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews a new French movie, Bad Company. Based on a true story, the film gives a glimpse of the frenzied intensity of teenage love in a strikingly accurate way, that Turan claims, only the French can do.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on former refugees from Guatemala's 36-year civil war. Many returned to Guatemala from Mexico after a peace agreement in 1996, but conditions are still harsh.