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Dana Milbank, a columnist for The Washington Post, offers his view of former Vice President Al Gore's appearance on Capitol Hill. Milbank says that Gore's testimony on global warming was solid, but didn't live up to its billing.

The alien harmonies and jagged rhythms of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring signalled the birth of modern music in 1913. Conductor Marin Alsop says the rambunctious score still sounds fresh today.

Former Vice President Al Gore went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to testify about the effects of global warming. He went face to face with global-warming critics in the Congress and told them that they need to act quickly, or the nation's grandchildren will pay the price.

This week, mystery swirled in Washington after an anonymous filmmaker circulated an online attack ad against Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). The filmmaker was revealed as Phil DeVellis, but questions remain about the impact of YouTube political ads in the 2008 race.

The teams the experts most expected to advance survive three rounds of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. It's rare for four No. 1 seeds to be alive so deep into the tournament. But Florida, Kansas, Ohio State and North Carolina play on.

Condoleezza Rice is traveling to the Middle East this week, her fourth trip in as many months. The U.S. Secretary of State is there for a new round of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

The Senate Banking Committee grills top regulators and several of the nation's largest lenders about problems with sub-prime mortgages — and what regulators did and did not do to address them. About 14 percent of outstanding subprime loans are now delinquent by 30 days or more.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was more involved than he had previously acknowledged in the decision to dismiss eight U.S. attorneys in 2006, according to his former chief of staff. Kyle Sampson faced hours of questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Iran's president announces that 15 British sailors and marines held since March 23 for allegedly straying into Iran's territorial waters will be freed. Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies talks with Steve Inskeep.

Opposition leaders in Russia have made waves by organizing unsanctioned demonstrations. The group Other Russia includes a former prime minister, a novelist and chessmaster Garry Kasparov.