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Liane Hansen speaks with guitarist/composer Ralph Towner, from the jazz/classical/world music group Oregon. After playing together for 30 years, the quartet has had collaborations with orchestras in the past, but only now has put their orchestral repertoire on disc:Oregon in Moscow (Intuition Records #3303) features the group performing with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra. We'll also hear from producer Steve Rodby, who organized the Moscow project.

Liane talks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea about President Bush's past week, ranging from the reversal on his position to regulate carbon dioxide to his steady insistence on a tax cut to his edging away from his plan to have faith-based organizations deliver government services and to his desire to no longer have the American Bar Association review judicial appointments.

An ancient infectious disease has returned to El Salvador. For NPR and American Radioworks, correspondent Daniel Zwerdling reports on the outbreak of Dengue Fever in the Central American nation.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from the Balkans that Macedonian security forces and ethnic Albanian extremists continue to exchange gunfire today in northwest Macedonia. Also today, the commander of NATO-backed peacekeepers in neighboring Kosovo warned the rebels that allied troops would respond with force if any of their installations in the area were threatened.

Though Slobodan Milosevic is no longer in power, Yugoslav society still deals with the effects of his 13-year rule. But as NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, the political decay is inspring artists in Belgrade.

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.