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  • Best known as Harry Potter's cruel Muggle uncle, Griffiths also was an accomplished stage actor. Actor Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry, says Griffiths' "encouragement, tutelage and humor" made him a joy to work with.
  • Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's remarks follow a week of tense rhetoric and tit-for-tat military moves between the two sides.
  • Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Brené Brown studies vulnerability and shame. She discusses what can happen when people confront their shame head-on.
  • Jack-in-the-box toys are frightening enough, but could you imagine patiently winding the lever until: POP! goes...Vin Diesel? In this game, guest musician Julian Velard attempts to spice up the children's song "Pop Goes the Weasel" by replacing the usual clown-in-the-box with words that sound like "weasel." Of course, all answers must be sung.
  • Is it just us or do movie, book and play titles often follow the same exact format? The Constant Gardener. The Great Gatsby. The Big Lebowski. Article, Adjective, Noun. In this Ask Me One More final round, puzzle guru John Chaneski asks our contestants to fill in the adjectives in some well-known titles.
  • Being one of the living dead would be a big advantage if you're on a crime spree, one lawyer theorizes. After all, if you're not conscious, how can you be liable for your evil acts?
  • Many of those stranded on the floes were ice fishing. The rescue was complicated by high winds and waves.
  • This model was hailed as a success in Somalia and is now being marshaled to fight rebels in the eastern Congo. It involves Western nations providing financial support to African troops who do the peacekeeping. But why are African countries so silent about their casualty figures?
  • Robert Seigel talks to Victor Cha of the Center for Strategic and International Studies about recent threats from North Korea on the United States and South Korea.
  • The slow, silky pace of Gilles Bourdos' biopic Renoir might burden a lesser subject. But the beauty of the cinematography suggests the aesthetic of the Impressionist master, lending the whole film a surreally beautiful air. (Recommended)
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