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The idea that African-American men have great fashion sense is not a stereotype, says Monica L. Miller, the author of Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Miller and NPR's resident style king, Victor Holliday.

The Department of Justice is suing to block a proposed merger between Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster

Nicole Willis and her band operate in the vein of so-called retro-soul artists — musicians and singers, groomed on classic R&B, who fashion their music as if it actually came out in that era. Willis' aesthetic clearly leans toward the past, but she demonstrates tremendous stylistic versatility.

Once the strongest element of post-Watergate campaign reforms, the presidential public financing system now seems to be going down the drain. Its spending limits are too restrictive for the current era of mega-campaigns, and so far at least, every major candidate for 2008 has opted out, in favor of private contributions.

The change started April 1.

Chinese authorities confirm that the popular Aqua Dots toys are coated with an industrial chemical, which when ingested, can turn into gamma hydroxy butyrate, an illegal depressant sometimes called a "date-rape drug" that can cause seizures, comas or death. Millions of the toys were recalled.

A new book skewers today's mindless corporate culture via the e-mails of Martin Lukes, a fictitious, ambitious, forty-something middle manager who works for a company that makes nothing in particular.

Congressional Democratic leaders seem to have blinked in the staredown with President Bush over a bill to fund four more months of the Iraq war. Democrats say their bill no longer contains a timeline for troop withdrawal from Iraq — a point that prompted a veto of earlier legislation.

Indiana's Richard Lugar, one of the most respected voices on foreign affairs, says it is time for the U.S. to consider scaling back its military commitment.

LaQuedra Edwards had put $40 into a lottery vending machine at a supermarket in Los Angeles when "some rude person" bumped into her, causing her to buy a different lottery ticket than she intended.