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NPR's David Welna reports on his visit to West Houston this week with a Republican member of the House, Texas' John Culberson. Culberson represents a safe Republican district, one that first elected President Bush's father to Congress. But Culberson won the seat only five months ago, and he used the congressional recess -- and a town hall meeting -- to share views with his constituents.

Two years after the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer sat down this week to talk with some high school students and their parents about how the incident affected their lives then and now. The students talk about safety in their schools, and about the unwritten rules about when and when not to tell adults about another kid. Parents talk about what worries them most and least. And they discuss what they do to try to stay in touch with their children's lives.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports after a week of intense Israeli-Palestinian violence in the Gaza Strip, some Palestinians are beginning to question whether their armed rebellion will succeed against the overwhelming firepower of the Israelis. But many Palestinians still say there's no alternative.

President Bush had a series of photo ops today, on the eve of the summit. Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Don Gonyea about the President's agenda at the summit.

Anthony Kuhn reports American negotiators from the U.S. - China talks on the April 1 midair collision returned home as Chinese President Jiang Zemin met with the family of the Chinese fighter pilot who died in the collision. Adding to U.S. - China tensions are the continued arrests of Chinese-Americans who are visiting China and next week's decision on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews a new French movie, Bad Company. Based on a true story, the film gives a glimpse of the frenzied intensity of teenage love in a strikingly accurate way, that Turan claims, only the French can do.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on former refugees from Guatemala's 36-year civil war. Many returned to Guatemala from Mexico after a peace agreement in 1996, but conditions are still harsh.

Film Critic Bob Mondello reviews The Visit, based on a true story about a man dying of AIDS in prison, waiting for a visit from his unforgiving father. It stars Hill Harper, Billy Dee Williams, Felicia Rashad, and others. Mondello was surprised at how affirmative it is.

Robert Siegel speaks with John Hutson, the dean of Franklin Pearce Law School in Concord, New Hampshire about the legal procedures against the captain of a U.S. submarine that collided with a Japanese vessel off Hawaii earlier this year. Cmdr. Scott Waddle -- the captain of the USS Greeneville -- faces disciplinary action that will likely end his career. Nine people from the Japanese ship -- a trawler used to teach high school students to fish -- died in the accident. Hutson is a retired Navy rear admiral and Navy judge advocate general.

President Bush heads to Quebec City today for a meeting North and South American leaders. Commentator Andrew Malcolm says the United States is so focused on a global foreign policy agenda that it often takes its nearer neighbor Canada for granted.