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In 2000, when George W. Bush accepted the GOP presidential nomination, he told the story of juvenile delinquent Johnny Demon to highlight the need for "compassionate conservatism." Now 21, Demon has no job, no permanent home and no idea he was used in Bush's speech. Reporter Robert Draper follows up on Demon's fate in the latest issue of GQ. Draper talks with NPR's Robert Siegel.

As he leaves Morning Edition, where he has been host since the show's debut in 1979, NPR recognizes Bob Edwards' 30 years on the public airwaves. After nearly 25 years of waking up at 1 a.m., Edwards assumes new duties as senior correspondent for NPR News. Hear NPR's Susan Stamberg.

La-Z-Boy is the biggest manufacturer of upholstered furniture in the United States, and also one of its best known brand names. But tough competition from other companies is cutting into La-Z-Boy's revenues. In response, La-Z-Boy has hired New York designer Todd Oldham to update its image. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Musicology, (Columbia) the new recording by Prince.

Seventeen years after it was proposed and three years after ground was broken, the National World War II Memorial opens in Washington. NPR's Bob Edwards reports on the controversial project. See photos of the new memorial.

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators descend on Washington, D.C. for the "March for Women's Lives." With the issue of abortion rights taking center stage, the march was the largest women's rights demonstration since 1992. The event also drew anti-abortion activists. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Army Mjr. Gen. Martin Dempsey about the security situation in Iraq. Gen. Dempsey is commander of the First Armored Division in Baghdad. He assesses current conditions and discusses the difficulties of maintaining order in some parts of Iraq and restoring it in others.

CIA Director George Tenet tells the Sept. 11 commission it will take another five years to fix problems with U.S. intelligence operations that allowed the 2001 attacks to happen. Tenet acknowledges his agency failed to uncover the Sept. 11 plot. But he says a panel report was wrong in concluding the CIA had no strategic plan to fight terror before the attacks. Hear NPR's Libby Lewis.

It's been 10 years since South Africa held all-race elections and ended apartheid. The country has been been more successful than other African nations in its transition to democratic rule. Its stability is due in large part to Nelson Mandela, the man who ended apartheid and became the nation's first post-apartheid president. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.

A five-part series looks at South Africa's half-century-long struggle for democracy through rare sound recordings — the voices of freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, and those who fought with and against him.