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Two lawsuits by current and former employees of the Christian Coalition allege a Jim Crow-like working environment at the organization's Washington headquarter. As NPR's Phillip Martin reports, it's the latest hurdle for an organization that's been in turmoil for the last few years.

Scott talks with reporter Geroge Anastasia of the Philadelphia Enquirer about the trial of reputed Mob boss "Skinny Joey" Merlino of the Philadelphia Mob.

Early this morning, Yugoslavian police tried to present an arrest warrant to former leader Slobodan Milosevic. But Milosevic refuses to come out of his villa in Belgrade and has been quoted as saying he won't be taken alive. Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli in Belgrade about the standoff between police and Milosevic.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

Scott returns from a safari in Africa, and tells about it.

President Bush is pushing for annual testing for public school students from third to eighth grade. But parents, teachers, state education officials and testers are opposed. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

In the last three months since President Bush took office, he's made some decisions on environmental policy that have upset environmentalists but which the President characterizes as necessities during the country's energy crisis. Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Christopher Joyce about the President's environmental policy.

Despite President Bush's decision earlier this week not to ratify the Kyoto Treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, some European countries say they still plan to support the agreement. NPR's Alison Aubrey reports.

In the first of an occasional series, host Lisa Simeone and word guru Richard Lederer disect the language pet peeves of, like, listeners.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Vermont poet David Budbill, who reads from his book, Moment To Moment: Poems Of A Mountain Recluse. Budbill's "recluse" is Judevine Mountain, named after the mountain on which Budbill lives. (www.coppercanyonpress.or