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Actor Tom Cruise's rushed engagement to actor Katie Holmes has flummoxed tabloid editors who usually count on a long lead time to such big events. Alex Chadwick talks to Slate media critic Jack Shafer about celebrities and their love-hate relationship with the tabloid press.

Cathie Wood, who has millions of social media followers, is struggling this year. Wall Street is wondering whether one of the most successful investors it has seen in years was previously just lucky.

As a child, NPR listener Colleen Shaddox loved hearing her uncle play jazz piano. Now her son is developing a love for the music that she believes unites her family even in the most troubling of times.

A new documentary views the tragedy of the Beslan school siege through the eyes of child survivors. The school's violent takeover by Chechen separatists in Russia left 331 people dead -- more than half of them children.

The search and rescue continues after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Looting is rampant; New Orleans tries to stem its flooding; and the thousands living in the Superdome begin the move to the Houston Astrodome.

Tom Mathews' father was a veteran of the 10th Mountain Division in World War II. His book, Our Fathers' War, contains essays exploring how the conflict affected filial relations for 10 men who served.

David Gray's new album, Life In Slow Motion, is the product of two years of work to evolve as a songwriter. The new release has been described by Gray himself as "the tip of an iceberg" of musical stores built up over time.

Among a group of devotees who collect and restore old stoves -- noting their craftsmanship and superior performance -- one is known as "the stove man." Ed Semmelroth is a legend for his passion and skill in restoring old stoves to nearly perfect condition.

Four young guys in dark mop-top haircuts, slightly mod suits peer with disarming insoucience from the cover of an album produced by Capitol Records. Meet The Redwalls, who are touring the country with a CD, de nova, that evokes the sound of the early Beatles.

Robert Siegel talks with actress Eva Marie Saint, and her husband, producer/director Jeffrey Hayden. Saint and Hayden talk about the recent death of Hollywood screenwriter Ernest Lehman. Saint co-starred in North by Northwest which Lehman wrote, and she and her husband were close friends of Lehman's.