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

Scott talks with reporter Geroge Anastasia of the Philadelphia Enquirer about the trial of reputed Mob boss "Skinny Joey" Merlino of the Philadelphia Mob.

President Bush is pushing for annual testing for public school students from third to eighth grade. But parents, teachers, state education officials and testers are opposed. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

Early this morning, Yugoslavian police tried to present an arrest warrant to former leader Slobodan Milosevic. But Milosevic refuses to come out of his villa in Belgrade and has been quoted as saying he won't be taken alive. Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli in Belgrade about the standoff between police and Milosevic.

In the last three months since President Bush took office, he's made some decisions on environmental policy that have upset environmentalists but which the President characterizes as necessities during the country's energy crisis. Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Christopher Joyce about the President's environmental policy.

Despite President Bush's decision earlier this week not to ratify the Kyoto Treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, some European countries say they still plan to support the agreement. NPR's Alison Aubrey reports.

Two lawsuits by current and former employees of the Christian Coalition allege a Jim Crow-like working environment at the organization's Washington headquarter. As NPR's Phillip Martin reports, it's the latest hurdle for an organization that's been in turmoil for the last few years.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Tom Tucker of Alexandria, Virginia, about the tradition of Shape-Note singing. Tucker is chairman of "The 2001 Potomac River Sacred Harp Singing Convention" taking place this weekend in Virginia. For more information, contact the Folklore Society of Greater Washington (www.fsgw.org or call 1-202-546-2228). Shape-Note singing in the United States dates back to the 1700s, first taking hold in New England and migrating to the South. It is a style of singing designed for people who are not musically trained.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Vermont poet David Budbill, who reads from his book, Moment To Moment: Poems Of A Mountain Recluse. Budbill's "recluse" is Judevine Mountain, named after the mountain on which Budbill lives. (www.coppercanyonpress.or

Activists in Cuba are planning a nationwide protest set for Nov. 15. It will mark the second time this year that Cubans are standing up against the Communist government.