Mara Verheyden Hilliard

Fresh Air

Published January 23, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

She is on the steering committee of the group International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism). The group organized last Saturday's peace rally in Washington, D.C.

Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 100

The Associated Press

Bob Fernandez was a 17-year-old sailor on board the USS Curtiss during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack that propelled the U.S. into World War II.
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National & International News

How Syria's 'musician of the revolution' feels after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime

Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Syrian-American composer Malek Jandali about the fall of the dictatorship in Syria and his hopes for his homeland's future.