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Scott reads letters from listeners.

President Bush has made it an agenda item to provide federal grants to faith-based service organizations. NPR's Wade Goodwyn travels to Lufkin, Texas, and looks at how one faith-based partnership works.

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.

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.

When the German capital was moved to Berlin, a home and office were needed to be built for the Chancellor. The plans were approved by Helmut Kohl, but his successor Gerhard Schroeder has hinted he finds the massive glass-and-steel structure too grand. And now the public is feeling the same way. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

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.

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.

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.

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