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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.

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.

President George Bush makes a rare trip to the Pentagon to give support to his beleaguered secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld. As several prominent Democrats call for Rumsfeld's resignation over the Iraq prison abuse scandal, there is also some discontent among uniformed officials over Rumsfeld's policies and leadership style. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

A few weeks after Pfc. Jesse Givens was killed in Iraq, his family received a farewell letter from him -- and the son he would never know was born. One year later, Givens' widow seeks to help her young sons remember their father.

Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Friday took his presidential campaign to Westminster College in the Missouri town of Fulton. The college was the site of the famous "Iron Curtain" speech by Winston Churchill in 1946 and, earlier this week, of an anti-Kerry speech by Vice President Dick Cheney. Kerry said America faces a "moment of truth" in Iraq, and he used the occasion to call on President Bush to broaden the international coalition in Iraq. NPR's David Welna reports

Patterson's book Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy looks at the historic Supreme Court case and its aftermath. Patterson also wrote Grand Expectations: The United States 1945-1974.

FX's new series "Under the Banner of Heaven" dramatizes the very real murder of a young woman and her child in a Mormon community.

Activist Heather Booth and the Jane Collective provided thousands of women with abortions before Roe v. Wade.

John Ydstie reviews the week's news with Andrew Sullivan who writes for the New York Times Magazine.

The program promises to give out $500 monthly cash payments to 5,000 low-income households for a year, with no strings attached.