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Linda Wertheimer talks with Sebastian Rotella, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times in Lima, Peru, about the four-month-old manhunt for Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's former chief of the National Intelligence Service. He says that top officials fear Montesinos could still threaten the country's fragile democracy as long as he's still at large. Eighty investigators are looking for him.

The Colombian soap opera Betty La Fea, or Betty the Ugly,, has become a nightly hit all over Latin America. It features a heroine with buck teeth, dirty hair and a very bad wardrobe. Reporter Steven Dudley visits the show's set in Bogota to find out why Betty is popular.

NPR's Susan Stone profiles Danielson Famile, an unusual alternative rock band who are sweethearts of the indie music scene, but as they sing of Christ in their lyrics, they raise the hackles of many within the Christian music industry.

House Democrats are meeting near Pittsburgh today, reviewing the 2000 presidential election and trying to come up with a strategy for dealing with President Bush's legislative proposals. The president himself stopped by today to try to convince them to support his agenda. NPR's Eric Westervelt tells Lisa who is winning over whom.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. premiere of Puccini's Tosca . Despite a mediocre reception and a poor review of the first performance at the Metropolitan Opera, Toscaendures as one of the most revered operas in history. Lisa discovers why it's also one of the most disaster-prone.

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg visits the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore to see paintings by 19th century French artist Edouard Manet. The curator of the museum says the painter, who was an influential figure to the young Impressionists, can be best expressed by a painting of asparagus.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports that the nation's largest cranberry-growing cooperative of farmers is on tenuous financial ground. It wants growers to be required to reduce cranberry production.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about President Bush's recent efforts at bipartisanship and the outlook for the president's legislation on tax and social policy.

With new elections for Prime Minister of Israel scheduled for Tuesday, opinion polls strongly suggest that Likud Party candidate Ariel Sharon could win and displace Labor Party candidate and current Prime Minister Ehud Barak. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

Many consumers in California have trouble believing the state's electrical power shortage is real. But some analysts say there were indications throughout the past decade that California would soon be facing an energy crisis. Cheryl Colopy of member station KQED reports.