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2: Two winners of the P.E.N./Freedom to Write Awards: Serbian dissident writer SVETLANA SLAPSAK (Svet-LAUNA SLAP-sack) and Bosnian writer ZORAN MUTIC (zoe-RON MOO-tick). Both fled Sarajevo and Belgrade respectively to avoid repercussions because of their outspokenness and are living in exile in Slovenia. MUTIC is of Serb/Muslim background and is a translator who translated Rushdie's "Midnight Children," into Serbian. After the death sentence against Rushdie, MUTIC became a staunch supporter of him in the Sarajevo community. SLAPSAK wrote the widely acclaimed essay, "When Words Kill." In 1968 she was beaten by police because of her editing of the magazine "Frontisterion." She is president of the Committee for the Liberty of Expression.

Author and historian Tiya Miles explains how a simple cotton bag ended up "clearly expressing the importance of love and care and continuity and resilience."

March is the month of tournaments, but why should college basketball have all the fun? Every weekday at NPR Music brings a new Song of the Day, so Jacki Lyden and Song of the Day editor Stephen Thompson recently sat down to debate this past week's selections.

The U.S. and South Korea are conducting joint military exercises. In the past, the North has used missile tests to express its displeasure. On Thursday, South Korean officials say, it did so again.

Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov's music brings together influences of his eastern European roots, Jewish heritage and native Argentina. His new song cycle, called Ayre, was written for soprano Dawn Upshaw.

The president and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert express a "shared vision" to see peace in the Palestinian territories.

At the heart of the impasse is a debate about expiring subsidies for health insurance. It's the latest chapter in a fight over Obamacare that has dominated Congress since the law was signed in 2010.

Should the Afghan government sign a security agreement, the U.S. plans to keep as many as 9,000 American troops in Afghanistan even after the U.S. and NATO's combat mission officially ends late in 2014. But the remaining U.S. troops will almost certainly be outnumbered by civilian contractors.

Dalia Mogahed, director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, gives an overview of American Muslims' political positions both historically and during this election cycle.

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