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NPR's Emily Harris reports on former President Bill Clinton's defense of his pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich.

NPR's Rob Gifford talks to host Lisa Simeone about a new tax fraud scam in China that could be the worst corruption scandal since Communists took over the country in 1949.

When former Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic lost the presidential election last September, young people celebrated. His defeat was largely the result of a grassroots effort led by a group of mostly young people called "Otpor" or "Resistance. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with one of the members of Otpor, Slobodan Homen.

More than 900 Kurdish refugees are stranded on the coast of France. They paid thousands of dollars to smugglers who ran their boat aground and then abandoned the would-be immigrants. NPR's Sarah Chayes talks about the fate of the refugees and the experience of hiding in a small boat to escape one's homeland.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from the Gaza strip, where five months of fighting and Israeli-imposed control measures have left the Palestinian territories on the verge of economic collapse.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports from Raleigh, North Carolina, on a series of new lawsuits which claim that large-scale hog farms are damaging the environment. Pork producers deny the charges.

Frank reads from listener letters and e-mails.

NPR's Margot Adler reports from the International Toy Fair in New York on a new direction for Lego: action figures with weapons. Some parents are upset with the latest offerings from the construction toy company.

Frank talks to writer and former priest James Carroll, whose new book, Constantine's Sword; The Church and the Jews, explores the role of the Catholic church in anti-Semitism. From gospel accounts of the crucifixion of Jesus, to Emperor Constantine's transformation of the cross into a sword, and through the Holocaust, Carroll illustrates the points of conflict -- and common ground -- between Jews and Catholics. (The book is published by Houghton Mifflin, Co.)

The founder of a support group for people who have caused accidental death or injury has some personal insight on the emotions stirred up by the killing of a cast member on the set of the movie Rust.