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NPR critic Bob Mondello reviews the latest film by novelist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle, the romantic comedy When Brendan Met Trudy.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Ian Johnson of the National Farmers Union; Senator Hillary Clinton (Democrat, New York) and Chuck Hagel (Republican, Nebraska); PBS's Jim Lehrer, ABC's Peter Jennings, CBS's Dan Rather, and NPR's Noah Adams; President George W. Bush and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (Democrat, South Dakota).

NPR's Andy Bowers reports on the search for an adequate name for the current decade.

The corruption which enabled Soviet Georgia to flourish has led to economic ruin in the post-Soviet Republic of Georgia. And local traditions of defiant individualism and contempt for state authority are combining with high unemployment, street violence, and power outages to produce a near lawless state. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the Amtrak passenger train that jumped the tracks early this morning in a remote area of Iowa. Several cars were knocked on their sides, killing one person and injuring 90.

As violence rises again in the Balkans, as tribal feuds persist in Borneo, as turmoil pervades much of Africa ... NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr looks around the world and sees so many conflicts detracting from any prospect to move toward globalization.

NPR's Noel King talks to Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, about President Biden's revised spending proposal.

David Greenberger reviews a new CD that jokingly delivers a "battle of the bands". It's a 2-CD set, from two different pop/rock bands, both led by musician Scott McCaughey. One band is called The Young Fresh Fellows; the other is The Minus Five. The battle is billed as The Young Fresh Fellows versus The Minus Five. The CD's liner notes even has instructions for tallying up a point count for each of the two contenders. The label is Mammoth Records, copyright 2001.

NPR's David Welna reports on the second installment of President Bush's tax plan, which passed the House Ways and Means Committee today on a party-line vote. This installment, which the full House is expected to take up next week, focuses on the so-called marriage tax and the child tax credit. But Democrats argue -- and some Republicans agree -- that none of this addresses the immediate problem of the faltering economy.

Some say the financial markets continue to decline because the Federal Reserve decided to cut interest rates by just half a percent earlier this week. Commentator Lyle Gramley, who is a former member of the Federal Reserve Board, says Wall Street's decline is more about the slowdown in the economy. A previous Fed commentary aired yesterday. In that piece, Bert Ely said the Fed's interest rate cut was too little, too late, and that the Fed has a history of either under or overreacting.