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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, known for work in post-apartheid South Africa, talks with Debbie Elliott about getting people to look at the world in a different way... throwing away old categories and old concepts and starting fresh.

A Hamas leader rejects calls to eschew violence in the wake of victory in the Palestinian elections. U.S. and European leaders threaten aid cuts to the Palestinian Auhority unless Hamas disarms. Scott Simon discusses developments with Rami Khouri of Beirut's Daily Star.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is in Afghanistan Thursday, where he addressed U.S. troops at the Bagram Air Base. Rumsfeld expressed disapproval of any speedy withdrawals from either Afghanistan or Iraq.

In the first of a series called "The Long View, Steve Inskeep talks to Lewis Lapham, outgoing editor of Harper's Magazine. Lapham has been at the helm of the magazine for almost 30 years and gives his perspective on U.S. culture and politics today.

Stuart Bowen is the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. His office has just released its seventh Quarterly Report to Congress. The report documents how $30 billion set aside for Iraqi reconstruction was spent -- and how to prevent waste and fraud.

President Bush will give the annual State of the Union Address on Tuesday night. Debbie Elliott talks with Senior National Correspondent Linda Wertheimer about the president's standing in recent polls, controversy over domestic spying and the political importance of Tuesday's speech.

Robert Moog, a pioneer of electronic music, has died. When he was a teenager, Moog started building theremins, and his early work in the development of electronic musical keyboards made his name synonymous with the word "synthesizer" through much of 1960s and '70s.

Attorneys for death row inmate Stanley Tookie Williams meet Thursday with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. They will argue for clemency for the Crips' co-founder and for commuting his sentence to life in prison without parole. Williams is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 13.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says during a visit to the Ukraine that U.N. rules against torture apply to U.S. personnel worldwide. U.S. policy previously interpreted the international convention as only applying to activities in U.S. territory.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attends a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers, called to discuss the alliance's involvement in Afghanistan. But Rice's trip has been dominated by criticism of America's global counter-terrorism operations.