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Many college freshmen are about to have their first roommate experience. Many of them may experience their new cohabitant's unfortunate inability to communicate directly. A Web site, Passiveaggressivenotes.com, collects all kinds of notes, among them the artifacts from domestic arrangements gone wrong.

In the 21st Democratic debate, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama traded barbs about "bittergate," Rev. Jeremiah Wright and a certain Bosnia tarmac. Neither candidate would say if they share the ticket with the other. The debate falls just before the April 22 Pennsylvania primary.

In the past few years there has been an increase in applications to American graduate schools but the rate of growth is slowing. Beth McMurtrie, international editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education talks with Liane Hansen about why there has been a decline in the number of foreign students attending U.S. universities.

Some experts are concerned that both in-school assignments and the books kids read for pleasure may not be challenging them enough.

Two years ago, the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind sparked a slew of retrospectives about the Seattle grunge scene. But those narratives left something out: the influence of women. A new play by Gretta Harley and Sarah Rudinoff aims to update the historical record.

Saturday night on CBS in 1973: All In The Family, M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show and The Carol Burnett Show. The pioneering comedienne was a capstone of American television for more than a decade. Now, a new DVD collection compiles 16 of Carol Burnett's favorite episodes.

"Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die," poet Marie Howe tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. One of Howe's most famous poems, "What the Living Do," was recently included in The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry.

One family submitted necessary paperwork for a loan modification to Bank of America but was told it wouldn't qualify — until a letter arrived recently that admitted the bank had made a mistake. Regulators are now trying to address the problem on a large scale.

On the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizons oil spill, Andrew B. Wilson of The Weekly Standard takes a look at what the worst oil spill in U.S. history taught us — and what we can expect in it's aftermath.

Our weekly education roundup: A big investigation into sexual assault in K-12 schools; achievement gaps persist in high school graduation rates.