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Marianne Faithfull, 58, talks about her new CD Before the Poison. It's bolstered by collaborations with PJ Harvey and Nick Cave. Faithfull supplies lyrics and a voice that has turned into a husky growl.

Host Steve Inskeep speaks with Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, about the nuts and bolts of Social Security's long-term financing issues.

President Bush is about to check one item off his second-term agenda. He will sign a bill Friday that aims to curb class-action lawsuits. The president and congressional Republicans hope this will be the first step toward their goal of overhauling the civil justice system.

A federal judge rejects for a second time a request by Terri Schiavo's parents to restore their daughter's feeding tube. The U.S. Supreme Court and Florida judges rebuffed the parents' appeals Thursday.

What would Easter be without Easter hats? Estella Wheeler of Estella's hats in Washington, D.C., describes the pastel finery in her church this morning, in a chat with host Debbie Elliott.

In 1990, 13 valuable works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The case became an obsession for detective Harold Smith, who recently died. Filmmaker Rebecca Dreyfus discusses her documentary, Stolen, which seeks to help recover the art.

Frank Delaney joins Scott Simon to talk about Ireland: A Novel, which is steeped in the storytelling tradition of the novelist's homeland.

A U.N. envoy who met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says there will be a Syrian timetable early next week for withdrawal from Lebanon. The U.S., France and Russia are among nations pressing Syria to remove its troops.

Got $60,000 to $80,000 to spare? If so, you could own a part of disco history and be strutting in your boogie shoes on the famous Saturday Night Fever dance floor. The multicolored platform where John Travolta showed off his moves is to be auctioned to the public.

President Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder put aside their differences over Iraq Wednesday and pledged to focus instead on areas of agreement. Thousands protested as Bush visited the German city of Mainz, but the two leaders promised to work together to build democracy in Iraq.