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Today is the day of remembrance for the lives lost in the Holocaust of World War II. In this commentary, Emily Benedek recalls meeting a Holocaust survivor and and learning her explanation for why she did not perish with so many others.

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr discusses the politics of gasoline and beef prices with Robert Reischauer, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and with Ron Faucheux [FOE-shay], publisher of "Campaigns and Elections" magazine. (8:00)]

Scott talks to the advice columnist about her new book "Wake Up and Smell the Coffee" (Villard Books) and her years of answering people's problems.

A 25th Anniversary celebration of All Things

Author JONATHAN HARR has written a new nonfiction book: "A Civil Action: A Real-Life Legal Thriller." (Random House). The Boston Globe describes it as "a narrative as deeply involving as one of the earliest of its genre, "In Cold Blood." A fascinating work of literary reportage."

In Los Angeles, arrests are markedly down over the past few years. No one knows exactly why, though there's no shortage of opinions. NPR's Mandelit DelBarco says olice chief Willie Williams attributes it to better policing, especially community policing involving citizens. But police officers say the fallout from the Rodney King beating and ensuing riots have made them less enthusiastic in pursuing suspects.

believes it's time for Republicans to take seriously the possibility that the Democrats could recapture Congress in September.

NPR's Julie McCarthy analyzes whether the new US-Japan security pact will create a new, more active role for the Japanese military. Already a debate is beginning about whether the pact could eventually bend, or violate, Japan's pacifist constitution.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports the Air Force T-43 carrying Secretary Ron Brown and delegation wasn't equipped with the so called black box or flight data recorder. The pentagon says that's because the aircraft was procured as a training aircraft...and so it didn't come with that euipment as civilian aircraft do.

Commentator Bob Mondello takes a look at two movies that were honored at last week's Academy Awards. The Oscar for Best Documentary went to "Anne Frank Remembered," which is just beginning to appear in theaters. Last week also marked the American debut of a German drama called "Stalingrad," about the doomed Nazi battle to crush the Soviet Union.