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Melissa Block talks with New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas D. Kristof. Kristof just returned from eastern Chad, where he was reporting on the violence that has spread there from Darfur. Kristof has chastised the international community for its lack of action in the region; the United Nations has recognized the events as genocide.

Carl Orff's 1937 composition Carmina Burana remains one of the most popular pieces of the classical music repertoire. Conductor Marin Alsop and Scott Simon discuss why so many artists have performed the piece.

Nintendo's Wii videogame system is hitting the market at about the same time as Sony's PlayStation 3. But the two boxes are aimed at different people.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman died Thursday at the age of 94. He is famous for pioneering ideas about free markets and individual freedoms.

A growing number of illegal immigrants in the United States are children who've come alone. The U.S. approach to these children is conflicted: Immigration officials still work to deport them, even as Health and Human Services operates a network of shelters to care for them.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will step down and former CIA Director Robert Gates has been nominated to replace him at the Pentagon. Iraqi National Security Advisor Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie talks about how the shift at the Pentagon will might change efforts to combat violence in the country.

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill have raised the possibility of holding up congressional funding for the war in Iraq. But even some Democrats who are opposed to the conflict say it would be impractical to cut off funds.

Singer Aretha Franklin talks about the legacy of the late hitmaker Ahmet Ertegun. The co-founder of Atlantic Records died this week at 83. He helped discover and develop many artists, including Ray Charles, Led Zeppelin and Sonny and Cher.

On Dec. 26, 2004, the biggest tsunami in recent memory killed more than 250,000 people around the coast of the Indian Ocean. Two years after the tsunami, people displaced by the disaster are still living intents or makeshift homes. The Red Cross promised to build 50,000 homes; so far, there are only 8,000. Host Robert Siegel speaks with the United Nations' Miloon Kothari.

Sarah Palin made history in November when she was elected governor of Alaska. Palin is the first woman to win the office, and, at the age of 42, will be the youngest governor in the state's history.