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Harvey Pitt resigns as chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission. Pitt had a stormy tenure as SEC chief and was recently under fire for his handling of the appointment of William Webster to head an accounting oversight board. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman concedes defeat in the state's contested governor's race. The decision by Siegelman, who trailed Republican Rep. Bob Riley by about 3,000 votes and had been pursuing a recount, ends the nation's last undecided governor's race. Megan Williams reports.

It's the most-played board game in the world. Though it's considered the ultimate contest of money and power, it started out as a cautionary exercise to make Americans aware of the excesses of capitalism. On Morning Edition, NPR's Juan Williams reports on Monopoly's humble roots, as part of the Present at the Creation series. (8:38)

NPR Senior Correspondent Juan Williams reports on a new book by Harvard sociologist Katherine Newman about the lives of poor blacks and Hispanics in parts of Harlem. (A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife And Beyond in The Inner City, by Katherine Newman, is published by New Press: ISBN 156584615X)

Iraq invites South African weapons experts to Baghdad for talks on disarmament. South Africa began a nuclear program in the 1970s as a deterrent to neighbors opposed to apartheid, but dismantled it in the 1980s. NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Mitchell Reiss of the College of William and Mary.

President Bush will fill any Supreme Court vacancies in his second term, and it appears that he will at least be naming a successor to ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Hear NPR's Nina Totenberg.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews Edmond, a thriller starring William H. Macy and Julia Stiles, with screenplay by David Mamet.

The film Hoop Dreams chronicled the high school basketball triumphs of Chicago youths William Gates and Arthur Agee. A decade after their glory season, the dreams still linger, as Agee tells guest host John Ydstie on All Things Considered.

NPR's Juan Williams talks with former senator and one-time Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole about the challenging period between winning a party nomination and officially getting it. Dole was the Republican nominee in 1996.

In the final part of a series on Brown vs. Board of Education, NPR's Juan Williams reports on the integration of public schools in Prince Edward County, Va., and its effect on two white families. Monday is the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that brought desegregation to the classroom.

Slate contributor Ben Williams offers a weekly round-up of what film critics are saying about the weekend's major film premieres: Alfie, The Incredibles and It's All About Love.

Singer Hayley Westenra is fresh from success on the international classical charts, and hoping to win new fans in the U.S. NPR Senior Correspondent Juan Williams talks with the 17-year-old New Zealand soprano about her voice and her new album, Pure.

Slate contributor Ben Williams sums up what the nation's critics are saying about the weekend's major film premieres -- The Manchurian Candidate, The Village and Garden State.

Slate contributor Ben Williams presents a roundup of what film critics are saying about this weekend's new releases, including Mean Creek, Without a Paddle and Exorcist: The Beginning.

Slate contributor Ben Williams summarizes what film critics are saying about this weekend's new releases, including Fahrenheit 9/11, The Notebook and White Chicks.

Slate contributor Ben Williams rounds up what critics are saying about the latest major movie releases, including Collateral, Little Black Book and Open Water.

Environmentalist William Powers' new book is Whispering in the Giant's Ear: A Frontline Chronicle From Bolivia's War on Globalization. Powers is also the author of Blue Clay People, about Liberia. He has worked for over a decade in development aid in Latin America, Africa and Washington DC.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including former Colorado governor Richard Lamm, NAACP President weisi Mfume, President Bill Clinton, Secretary of Defense William Perry, the ate NBC journalist John Chancellor and music from the group "Smashing umpkins", whose keyboardist died this past week.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including President Bill Clinton, Secretary of Defense William erry, State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, President of the Reform Party oss Perot, Pat Choate, vice presidential nominee of the Reform Party and epublican presidential nominee Bob Dole.

NPR's John Ydstie reports on today's Nobel Prize in economics, awarded to Canadian William Vickery of Columbia University in New York and James Mirrlees, a British professor at Cambridge University in England. The two economists won the Nobel prize for their theories of how institutions make financial decisions and plans based on incomplete information.