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The four members of Winterpills deliver melodies that draw on influences as diverse (and yet harmonious) as the Beatles, the Carter Family, Elliott Smith and Neil Young. Members of the group talk with Liane Hansen about their eponymous debut CD on Signature Sounds.

Film critic Joe Barber tells Scott Simon about holiday fare from Steven Spielberg: Memoirs of a Geisha, which he produced, and Munich, which he directed.

Corky Siegel has new music out — just pick your album. The blues harmonica player has released three separate recordings this year, each featuring different players and styles.

President Bush says he approved domestic spying on people with suspected terrorist links without court warrants because it was "a necessary part of my job to protect" Americans from attack. At a press briefing, he said he would continue the program as long as the country faced terrorist threats.

One of the most popular items in the National Archives is a 1970 photo of Elvis Presley and President Nixon. It all started with a letter Elvis wrote to Nixon, requesting a meeting.

Robert Siegel discusses President Bush's speech outlining a strategy in the war in Iraq with Reuel Marc Gerecht, contributing editor for the Weekly Standard, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, former Middle Eastern specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1985 to 1994 and author of The Islamic Paradox: Shiite Clerics, Sunni Fundamentalists, and the Coming of Arab Democracy, and George Packer, staff writer at the New Yorker magazine and author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq.

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Bob Riedel from Dansville, N.Y. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WXXI in Rochester.)

Analysts say renegade elements of the al Qaeda-linked group Jemaah Islamiyah who have fled a crackdown in Indonesia are turning up in the Muslim region of the southern Philippines. They appear to be forming new alliances with domestic militant groups such as Abu Sayyaf.

The bar at the Hotel Indigo in downtown Atlanta has started a weekly happy hour for canines, complete with doggie snacks and all the tap water you can lap up. The event is proving to be a popular draw for both dog owners and the four-legged crowd.

Israeli troops and police complete the evacuation of 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in the West Bank. Troops have already begun demolishing settlers' homes in Gaza prior to handing the territory over to the Palestinian Authority in a few weeks.