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between World chess champion Garry Kasparov and a supercomputer by the name of Big Blue. Big Blue took the first round last Saturday, but Kasparov came back to take the second match yesterday.

Linda talks to James Perry, political reporter with the Wall Street Journal about the New Hampshire primary. Perry says this should have been a golden moment in the Republican revolution might the candidates have missed the opportunity.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Fred Barnes, executive editor f the Weekly Standard, and David Corn, Washington editor for The Nation. Topics nclude the First Lady's testimony before the Grand Jury; President Clinton's tate of the Union address and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole's (R-Kan.) esponse to it; and Super Bowl picks.

has joined a Chicago suburb in opposing a lawsuit which contends that private contractors who work for the government should have the same protection from political hiring and firing as do many public employees. He's asking the Supreme Court to reverse a 1990 ruling that declared the state's political patronage system unconstitutional.

director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about the findings from the exit polls in New Hampshire.

Robert and Noah mark the 80th anniversary of the battle of Verdun during World War I by reading the poem "Grass," by Carl Sandberg.

Noah speaks with Chris Hasset, president and CEO of Pointcast, a San Francisco company that has developed a computer screensaver that can deliver news and information.

programs abroad. The House of Representatives wants to reduce such funding by more than a third, unless abortion is restricted. The Senate and Clinton administration oppose the cuts and restrictions on the grounds that they endanger the lives of thousands of women and children in poor countries.

issues relating to last Friday's train crash in Silver Spring that killed 11 people.

Robert talks with Youssef Ibrahim (YOO-seff EE-brah-heem), a correspondent in the Paris bureau of the New York Times, about the return today of two senior Iraqis to Baghdad from Amman, Jordan. Hussein Kamel Hassan (hoo-SANE KAH-mel HAH-sahn), his brother Saddam Kamel and their wives, who are daughters of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, defected to Jordan last August. Hussein Kamel ran Iraq's secret military program and called for the overthrow of the Iraqi government. President Saddam Hussein today pardoned the brothers upon their return to Iraq.