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President Biden is beginning his European trip by meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican. These two leaders know each other quite well, and share many of the same concerns.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports that the National Basketball Association's 50th All-Star game will be played in Washington D.C. on Sunday. The league has many stars, but no transcendent superstar has emerged since the retirement of Michael Jordan. One leading candidate is Allen Iverson, a guard for the Philadelphia 76ers who is known as much for his profane outbursts and violent rap lyrics as for his wondrous play.

President Bush sent the centerpiece of his domestic agenda to Congress today, seeking approval of a tax cut plan valued at one-point-six-trillion dollars over the next ten years. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Capitol Hill.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on the progress made on Capitol Hill as lawmakers attempt to document the process behind President's Clinton's controversial pardon of fugitive Marc Rich.

Sarah Bardeen reviews the self-titled CD by a California band called Call and Response. (3:30) Call and Response, is on Kindercore Records. See www.kindercore.com . Sarah Bardeen is an editor at http://www.Listen.com

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on a House committee hearing today on former President Clinton's pardon of financier Marc Rich. Members of the Government Reform committee, including some Democrats, said Mr. Clinton used poor judgment in pardoning Rich, who remained in Europe while he was convicted in absentia on tax evasion charges.

After yesterday's incident outside the White House, the news media descended on the neighborhood of the Indiana man who was shot. Police shot Robert Pickett in the leg after he allegedly brandished a gun. Robert Siegel talks with Mike Jewel, a neighbor of Robert Pickett's, in Evansville, Indiana.

Commentator Rick Ridgeway recounts his return to a Tibetan mountain where twenty years ago an avalanche stopped his climb, and killed his friend Jonathan Wright. Ridgeway went back to Minya Konka with Wright's daughter, Asia, who had grown up without ever knowing her father. (4:00) Below Another Sky: A Mountain Adventure In Search of a Lost Father, by Rick Ridgeway is published by Henry Holt and Company, ISBN 0-8050-6284-X.

NPR asked reporters in Dallas, Chicago and Boston talk to voters about what they think of the tax cut plan that President Bush sent to Congress today. Wade Goodwyn found a lot of support for the plan at the upscale North Park Mall in Dallas. NPR's Mary Ann Akers found mixed reviews of the tax plan at a state office building in Chicago. NPR's' Anthony Brooks visited Boston's financial district. He found support for the tax cut among people in the financial services business. But more average voters wondered whether the money would be better spent on such programs as Social Security and Medicare.

Noah and Robert read some of the letters All Things Considered received from listeners this week. (4:00) Write to: Letters, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington DC, 20001 or send e-mail to atc@npr.org.