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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

It's time now for your letters.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CHILDREN OF THE RAINBOW")

SIEGEL: The song is "Children of the Rainbow" being sung by 40,000 Norwegians yesterday in Oslo, as they marched to the city's courthouse.

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

Inside sat right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, on trial for massacring 77 people last year. The singers gathered because Breivik has said publicly he hates the song, and considers it a Marxist plot to brainwash Norway's children.

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

And we turn now to our Friday political commentators, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution and David Brooks of the New York Times. Welcome back to you both.

DAVID BROOKS: Good to be here.

E.J. DIONNE: Good to be with you.

BLOCK: Happy birthday week to you, E.J.

DIONNE: Thank you.

Robert Siegel speaks with Miami Herald reporter Patricia Mazzei about how that county spent millions on new vehicles that were never used, and have been just sitting in garages since 2006.

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

Our book reviewer, Alan Cheuse, has been visiting the early days of British settlements in Australia. His means of transport is an award-winning novel called "That Dead Man Dance." It's by Australian writer Kim Scott.

ALAN CHEUSE, BYLINE: Cygnet River, the coast of southwestern Australia, early in the 19th century, first contact between the aboriginal Noongar people and the crew of settlers from England led by a well-meaning medical man named Dr. Cross. The Noongars are represented by young Bobby Wabalanginy.

Even before the hospital bills started coming, Lori Duff and her family were living paycheck to paycheck. So when the debt collector called the Columbus, Ohio, mother and demanded $1,800 for the prenatal visits she'd had while pregnant with her third son, she panicked.