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Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson about the continuing controversy over the pardons and commutations announced by then-President Clinton.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

Scott with some thoughts about the girl who was dismissed from the lead role in the musical Annie.

Scott speaks with the Math Guy, Keith Devlin, about the mathematics of knots. Knot theory has contributed enormously to both physics and, more recently, the understanding of DNA.

Last week we asked listeners to suggest items they use every day which are poorly designed or could use some improvement. We'll listen to some of the responses.

NPR's Bob Mondello takes a look at Faithless, the latest in the 35 year collaboration between filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and actress/director Liv Ullman.

Paul Brown reports on the legacy of the Highlander Folk School. It was founded in 1932 to help unionize workers during the Great Depression, mostly in Appalachia. But as times and issues changed the school devoted itself to the growing civil rights movement in the 1950's. Many historians say the Highlander Folk School was instrumental in organizing the fight for civil rights in America.

This past week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states are not obliged to pay damages to disabled state employees under federal law. Lisa Simeone talks to Deborah Kaplan, executive director of the World Institute on Disability, based in Oakland, California, and Peter Blanck, director of the Law, Health Policy and Disability Center at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City.

Reese Erlich reports on the Panorama Music Festival in Trinidad, which features the best steel or pan drummers in the country.

Reporter Alice Furlaud, Radcliffe class of '51, visits her old haunts in Cambridge as Harvard is poised to select a new president.