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Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Things We Lost in the Fire (on the independent label Kranky) by the rock band Low.

While US and British planes were bombing targets in Iraq, President Bush was in Mexico for his first foreign visit. Melinda speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea, who is with the President.

Linda Wertheimer interviews the authors of two new thrillers: Michael Connelly, about A Darkness More Than Night, and Evan Hunter, about his collaboration with Ed McBain to write Candyland: A Novel in Two Parts. Connelly's book takes main characters from other novels -- an LAPD detective and a retired FBI investigator -- and pits them against one another. Hunter, an acclaimed author who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, wrote the first half of Candyland, then looked to his alter-ego for the second half, when it becomes more of a murder mystery. (7:45) A Darkness More Than Night, by Michael Connelly, is published by Little, Brown, ISBN # 0-316-15407-5. Candyland, by Evan Hunter and Ed McBain is published by Simon and Schuster, ISBN # 0-7432-1316-5.

Former press secretary for Reagan and Bush, Marlin Fitzwater. He spent 17 years as a government flak before being appointed to his position in the Reagan White House. He wrote about his experiences in the memoir, Call the Briefing! He has a new novel coming out this spring called Esthers Pillow. (REBROADCAST from 10

Melinda speaks with the curator the the Museum of Western Colorado about new forsensic studies being undertaken to try to determine if the 19th century notorious "cannibal" Alfred Packer killed the rest of his group in order to eat them...or simply ate them after killing the last one in self-defense.

From the Library of Congress, Recording Sound Specialist, Samuel Brylawski and Acquisition Specialist Cooper Graham. The two compiled a collection of presidential speeches dating back 85 years Historic Presidential Speeches (1908-1993) (on Rhino/World Beat label). It begins with William Howard Taft, recorded during the presidential campaign of 1908. (REBROADCAST from 11

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from the Pentagon on the US and British attacks on five Iraqi targets.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the staffing crisis looming over the federal bureaucracy because of the push in recent years to downsize.

The Supreme Court in Israel decided there should be no ban on the playing in that country of the music of Richard Wagner. Wagner was a known anti-Semite, who was a hero to Adolf Hitler, although he died fifty years before Hitler rose to power. Melinda speaks with Martin Goldsmith, former host of NPR's Performance Today, about why Wagner's music was unofficially banned in Israel for so long.

Melinda talks with Krister Fardig, a sophomore at Brown University. Mr. Fardig is one of a group of players of a game, Sanctum, who bought it after the company went out of business.