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Snow Patrol appears content to issue a series of great, gooey ballads familiar to anyone who's heard Coldplay's "Fix You." "Chasing Cars" is formulaic and utterly irresistible, built to play in trailers for romantic movies involving Zach Braff.

One week into the month-long World Cup tournament, extremes of soccer are on display: The United States had an abysmal performance against the Czech Republic, while Spain, Argentina, and Ecuador have shown excellence.

Two new movies, The Lake House and Wordplay, take different paths to tricky subjects. One is about playing with time, the other about playing with words.

A Jordanian military plane has landed in Beirut, the first since Israel shut the city's airport down with a series of bombings. The plane carried medical equipment and other humanitarian supplies. The aid is much needed in Lebanon, although Israel will not allow it to be delivered to areas identified as Hezbollah strongholds.

Meg Wolitzer's novel The Position, which is now out in paperback, is about a 1970s era couple who write a Joy of Sex-style book, complete with illustrations of them making love -- then their teenage children get a hold of it. Our book critic describes it as a "smart, wry novel... that turns out to be a poignant elegy to the fleeting health and pleasures of the body, as well as to the fleeting emotional and physical togetherness of the family." This interview originally aired on May 10, 2005.

An offensive in Afghanistan targets fighters loyal to the ousted Taliban regime. A U.S.-led coalition hits two camps in southern Afghanistan hard. Financial Times correspondent Rachel Moragee sets the scene for John Ydstie.

Author and museum director James Cameron died last Sunday at the age of 92. In 1930, an organized mob of more than 10,000 white men and women dragged Cameron and two other black teenage men from a jail cell in Marion, Ind. The mob mercilessly beat the three young men and lynched two -- Cameron was spared. He recounted this experience in his 1984 memoir A Time of Terror and later founded the Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, which he modeled after the Jewish Holocaust museum in Israel. This interview originally aired on March 8, 1994.

At 65, Dr. John is best known for rhythm and blues and his voodoo charms. In a new album, Mercernary, he's taking Johnny Mercer's pop standards and mixing in his own brand of New Orleans funk.

If the souls of Sly Stone and Prince were united in the form of a white British singer, his name would probably be Jamie Lidell. Though Lidell is likely to perform his funk jams backed by a laptop, he still has the full-throated, improvisational vocal talent and showmanship of his predecessors.

The hit song "I Love Rock and Roll" by punk rocker Joan Jett stayed at number one on the Billboard charts for seven weeks back in 1982. Now decades later, Jett and her band, the Blackhearts, are playing songs from her first album in a decade to a new generation of punk fans.