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Mark Pachter, director of the National Portrait Gallery, finds a donor to help the Smithsonian Insitution purchase Gilbert Stuart's 1796 portrait of George Washington. His ability to raise more than $20 million for the effort is a tribute to the lasting appeal of an iconic image.

Liane reads from listener letters and e-mails.

NPR's Andy Trudeau and his annual review of the musical nominees for Best Score. In the second of three parts, he and Liane listen to Rachel Portman's music for Chocolat and Ennio Morricone's score for Malena.

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.

Across the country, as the days gradually grow longer, gardeners are turning to pulling up weeds, putting in pansies and considering the world around them. Weekend Edition essayist Diane Roberts contemplates the view from her mother's garden in Tallahassee.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Portland, Oregon native Erika Lee, who now lives in New Castle West in County Limerick, Ireland. Two years ago, Erika became the proprietor of "J. O'Sullivans," after winning the "win your own pub contest" sponsored by Guinness. She's enjoying her new life.

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.

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 Andy Bowers reports on the search for an adequate name for the current decade.

President Bush visited New Jersey this week to press for his tax cut proposal and to court one Democratic Senator in particular. From member station WNYC in New York, Andrea Bernstein reports.