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NPR'S Melissa Block reports on the testimony of Bernhard Goetz (Bur-NAHRD Getz) in his civil trial in New York City. Goetz is being sued for 50 million dollars by one of the four youths he shot on a subway car in 1984. The youth, Darrell Cabey, was paralyzed and suffered brain damage as a result of the shooting. Goetz was acquitted of attempted murder and assault in his CRIMINAL trial. In his testimony, Goetz said he shot the four youths when one of them asked him for 5 dollars; that he "snapped" when he saw the smile on the face of one of his victims. And he confirmed statements he's made in interviews, that the shooting was in some ways a "public service" and that the mothers of the victims should have had abortions.

Noah talks with Paul Dickson, author of "The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball," about the long tradition of using scorecards to follow the game of baseball and its players.

Scott reads some listener comments.

Susan speaks with NPR's Ann Garrels in Moscow about the ceasefire that was supposed to go into effect at midnight Friday in Chechnya. Fighting continued today despite the agreement to halt fighting, an agreement Russia's president Boris Yeltsin concluded this week with the Chechen rebel leader.

Kermit the Frog made history yesterday, as he received an honorary degree -- Doctor of Amphibious Letters -- from Long Island University's Southhampton College.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that Sen. Robert Dole now faces the challenge of keeping up with President Clinton, who seems to be adopting one Republican idea after another.

Liane speaks with New Yorker magazine theather critic John Lahr bout this year's awards. Controversy arose when Julie Andrews, star of ictor/Victoria, declined her nomination and producer David Merrick filed suit ver the way the awards were decided. Lahr thinks it was a good year for theater verall.

Daniel talks with former State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutwiler about the art of 'shuttle diplomacy'. Tutwiler travelled extensively with former Secretary of State James Baker who was attempting to lay the groundwork for a Middle East peace accord during the Bush Administration. Tutwiler says Baker developed strategies for dealing with tough negotiators such as knowing when to play hardball and when to sit back patiently and wait. She says Syrian President Hafez el Assad is one of the toughest negotiators and that often sessions with him would last 9 to 10 hours without a break.

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Robert Siegel talks with Alan Sokal, a professor of physics at New York University, about his parody of practitioners of "science studies." He tells how he deliberately wrote an article questioning the validity of measuring physical "reality" using nonsensical phrases, and submitted it to a well-respected academic journal. The editors published it as a serious treatise, not realizing it was written as a joke. (Sokal's article, "A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies," appeared in the May/June 1996 issue of Lingua Franca.