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Six men forced from their homes by violence in Sierra Leone have transformed their experience into a musical calling. The Refugee All Stars are now the subject of a feature-length documentary that follows their performances.

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Before going out on his own, he backed B.B. King and played with Ray Charles. He eventually became musical director for Charles' band and he credits what he learned about playing soulful music from Charles. His CD Hank Crawford: Memphis Ray and a Touch of Moody collects music from his previous recordings: More Soul, From the Heart, Soul of the Ballad, and Dig These Blues. (Rebroadcast from May 20, 1998.)

NPR's Mia Venkat explains to Mary Louise Kelly why the internet has been obsessed with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.

NPR's Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele talk men and women's March madness.

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the remake of "Born Yesterday," starring John Goodman, Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson.

After Norwegian scientists released a study concluding that firstborn brothers are smarter than younger ones, reporter Fred Kight of Ohio University Public Radio-Television News in Athens, Ohio, set out to conduct his own survey of men with brothers to see if that jibes with reality.

Scientists in Cremona, Italy have created the world's first cloned horse (shown left). The horse, called Promotea, is the second equine species to be cloned. With the news comes new hope for some conservationists who someday would like to use cloning technology to save critically endangered relatives of the horse.

Director Federico Fellini called an interview he gave to filmmaker Damian Pettigrew, "the most detailed conversation ever... of my personal vision." That interview is now the basis of Fellini: I'm a Born Liar, a new film from Pettigrew. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.

The lawyer for Yaser Esam Hamdi welcomes the Supreme Court's ruling that Hamdi, an American citizen arrested in Afghanistan in 2001, has the right to legally challenge his status as an "enemy combatant" in a U.S. court. Public defender Frank Dunham argued Hamdi's case after the suit was initiated by Hamdi's father. Hear Dunham and NPR's Robert Siegel.

A British music buff says he's found the inspiration for the Beatles' hit song "Yesterday" in "Answer Me," a song recorded in 1953 by Nat King Cole. Robert Siegel talks with historian Spencer Leigh about his theory.

Israel signals major expansion into Lebanon, with plans to control swathes of southern Lebanon in a bid for a "defensive buffer."