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Lisa talks with writer Paule Marshall about her new book, THE FISHER KING, a story of jazz and family strife in Brooklyn, New York. (THE FISHER KING is published by Scribner)

Forty years after two African-American students broke the race barrier at the University of Georgia, black students continue to feel unwelcome on a campus that they believe still hangs onto its racist past. From Athens, Steve Lickteig reports.

Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca about events this week in the world of science. Two new planets and a monkey named Andy are among the topics.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on findings by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that suggest American kids are more anxious today than their own parents were growing up.

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr notes the difficulties in the process of confirming cabinet appointments. Official actions and personal behavior are fair game when Senators are asking questions of would-be appointees.

Frank Stasio talks with Philip Hamburger, a writer for the New Yorker magazine and author of Matters of State: A Political Excursion, who has been attending Presidential inaugurations since the 1930's. Hamburger remembers Franklin Delano Roosevelt's riveting first inaugural address with particular fondness. (NOTE: Matters of State is published by Counterpoint.)

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Chinese Embassy Representative Lee Xiao Ming introducing two new pandas at the National Zoo in Washington; President-elect George W. Bush defending Linda Chavez, his original choice for Secretary of Labor; Linda Chavez, asking Bush to withdraw her nomination for Secretary of Labor; President-elect Bush introducing Elaine Chao, his new choice for Secretary of Labor; Elaine Chao; California Governor Gray Davis delivering his State of the State Address; David Stempler, President, Air Travelers Association and Barbara Biar, president of the aviation consulting firm Avmark; and Joanne Drake, chief of staff to former President Reagan.

Confirmation hearings begin Tuesday for John Ashcroft as George W. Bush's nominee for attorney general. Among the questions Ashcroft is expected to face are concerns over an interview he did with Southern Partisan magazine. NPR's Adam Hochberg profiles a magazine with a limited circulation, but a controversial reputation.

When Janet Reno steps down this month, she will have made history as the longest serving attorney general of the 20th century. Her eight-year tenure has been book-ended by controversial decisions in Waco, Texas, and in the case of Elian Gonzalez. But Reno also leaves a legacy of law enforcement at the local level. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with Jim Oliphant, a reporter with the Legal Times newspaper.

Indonesian financier James Riady struck a plea bargain with the Justice Department this week, in a move that appears to confirm allegations about fundraising during the Clinton era. NPR's Peter Overby reports.