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The employee performance review is getting a review itself, and some business leaders argue the evaluations are all but worthless. Managers don't offer useful criticism, according to many HR professionals, while workers refuse to talk about doubts or weak points.

Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema, leader of a coup in Gabon last week, has been sworn in as interim president, while the deposed former president remains detained at his residence.

The singer of such hits as "Walking on the Sun" and "All Star" died of acute liver failure in his home in Boise, Idaho.

The British musician and member of The xx talks about her debut solo album, Mid Air, and performs brand new songs live for World Cafe.

Evil figures prominently in favorite bedtime stories. But a new translation of the first edition of the Brothers Grimm's tales reveals exactly how unsanitized and murderous these stories once were.

The singer-songwriter's vocals soar in this beautifully simple Tiny Desk performance.

Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who represented the state in Congress for 28 years and served as President Clinton's first treasury secretary, died Tuesday morning, his family said. He was 85. Bentsen, also the Democratic 1988 vice presidential nominee, died at his home in Houston.

The Obama administration's plan to wipe toxic assets off bank balance sheets seems to be winning some early support from investors — including some of the big private investors whose support will be critical to its success.

Colombian emigre Edmar Castaneda came to the U.S. as a teenager and fell in love with the music of Charlie Parker and Chick Corea. So he decided to use a traditional instrument of Colombia's cowboys to play his own form of pan-Latin jazz.

Sen. Barack Obama delivered what his campaign called a "major address on race, politics and unifying our country" in Philadelphia on Tuesday. NPR's Mara Liasson tells Renee Montagne that the speech is very powerful, very complex and "will likely be remembered as one of the most important speeches on race that a politician has ever given."