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This week the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival features high school contributors. Jennifer Steele and Laura Mandelberg are two of the writers featured in the 10th annual Young Poets Competition, co-sponsored by the festival. They read from their poems for Weekend Edition.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new books: the short story collection Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz and the novel Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that Serambi Indonesia, the only daily newspaper in Aceh province, resumed publication Sunday for the first time since the tsunami destroyed its main offices.

U.S. expedition forces sweep across Kuwait's border into southern Iraq, preparing the battlefield for larger assaults. Airstrikes continue in Baghdad as the U.S. military tries to take out key Iraqi defenses there. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden talks with Andrew Jack, outgoing Moscow bureau chief for the London-based Financial Times newspaper, about his new book Inside Putin's Russia.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the fledgling democracy in Sierra Leone, West Africa. A recently elected government there survived a coup attempt earlier this week and citizens are still hopeful that democracy will take hold in their country which has a long history of instability.

NPR's Jennifer Luden takes a look at Firestone/Bridgestone's efforts to rebuild its rubber plant operation in Liberia. The seven-year-long civil war there caused most foreign investors to abandon their operations and flee the country. Now that a peace plan in Liberia appears to be holding, Firestone, once the country's largest private sector employer, is rehiring and rebuilding.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that residents of the Zairian capitol of Kinshasa are starting to panic...as rebel forces fight their way to the city. Zaire's president Mobutu Sese Seko has refused to relinquish power, to rebel leader Laurent Kabile who now controls more than half the country.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that the Catholic Church is a dominant influence in Zaire and is the leading opposition to the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko. And one of the leaders of the Catholic Church in Zaire is the person most often suggested as a successor to Mubutu as head of state. This is another in a series of NPR reports that examines the influence of religion in Africa.

- Daniel with Jennifer Shecter of the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit Washington research organization that tracks campaign fundraising. Shecter gives us a few examples that show a direct correlation between campaign contributions to legislators from industry and how those legislators voted on bills affecting those industries.