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at Emory University in Atlanta, about Republican gains in the Deep South. Southern states that were once dominated by Democrats are solidly Republican.

Robert talks with Lillian Pfluke, who retired this year from the Army with the rank of Major. She has spent time at Aberdeen, the base in Maryland where several men have been charged with sexual harassment. She says that she is very impressed with the way the Army is handling these allegations and with the efforts being made toward combating sexual harassment at all Army bases.

seemed to describe different economies belonging to different countries -- both named America.

NPR's Steve Inskeep has been following one of this year's tight congressional races, between incumbent Democrat Paul McHale and Republican challenger Bob Kilbanks. One of the big factors as the campaign becomes increasingly tense is fundraising -- and Kilbanks is running into problems because some in the business community are still bitter that he beat their favorite candidate in the primary, or they think Kilbanks is too conservative to win.

"Tin Cup," a romantic comedy about golf, starring Kevin Costner and Renee Russo. Sports have been prominent in Shelton's other movies too, such as >Bull Durham. But, he says, he considers sports to be the setting in which characters interact.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on new speculation about Russia, Chechnya and who's in charge in the Kremlin. Russian President Boris Yeltsin is out of town. And the man he put in charge of running government policy in Chehcnya, his security chief Alexander Lebed, is fighting on two fronts. While he works at settling the war in Chechnya, he's in daily battles with the bureaucracy in the Kremlin. The most recent attack from Lebed against the Kremlin is that Yeltsin's signature on recent decrees concerning Chechnya are facsimiles and not original.

The Department of Education today released its annual report on the demographics of the nation's schoolchildren. The number of students is at an all-time high, prompting concerns that school construction is not keeping up with the "baby boom echo," the increase in students resulting from many baby boomers having children later in life. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

-- the coroner says the woman, whose death he attended was not terminally ill.

President Clinton today signs legislation that will make it easier for people to keep their health insurance. Linda talks with NPR's Joanne Silberner about what the new law is, and is not, designed to accomplish.

In Brazil, the government of President Fernando Cardoso is addressing the issue of police violence. In recent years, Brazilian police have killed scores of innocent civilians in the course of their battle against drug dealers and other criminals. But NPR's Nina Teichholz reports the government is facing opposition from a legal establishment that learned its draconian methods of maintaining order during the country's days of military dictatorship.