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Commentator Joyce Maynard makes a list of the qualities she finds appealing in a man... and finds that actor Steve Martin fits the bill. Then she ends up meeting him. This is the story of their meeting.

. He is charged with murder by mail-bomb of an advertising executive in New Jersey.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that AT&T announced an aggressive expansion of its wireless telephone services today. The company plans to make a package of wireless services -- including data, paging and e-mail -- available in forty of the nation's largest markets. Several other companies are racing to provide similar services on a national basis.

NPR's Ted Clark talks with Linda about the conclusion of President Clinton's emergency summit to restart the Middle East Peace Process, which ended with only an agreement to keep talking -- back in the Middle East -- starting next Sunday. Both Israel and the Palestinians remain as divided as they were last week about the issues that resulted in 74 deaths. Any resolution of the two nations' differences has now been put off until further talks can be arranged.

Reviewer Alan Cheuse discusses the first novel by Kate Horsley, A Killing in New Town. It's set in New Mexico territory in 1879, and follows the story of a woman whose children are kidnapped by a traveling salesman. [Stations: A Killing in New Town is published by La Alameda Press.)

NPR's Melissa Block reports on the victory of Democrat Carolyn McCarthy, giving her a House seat from New York state. McCarthy was widowed after the Long Island Railroad shootings, and defeated incumbent Republican freshman Daniel Frisa after he voted to repeal an assault weapons ban.

Leon Panetta about changes in the cabinet President Clinton may make and what's in store for the second term of the Clinton administration.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that Kurdish leader Mahmoud Barzani's alliance with Baghdad one week, followed by reconciliation talks with American officials the next week, can be explained by a long history among Kurds of pitting one regional power against another in their aborted effort to carve out their own Kurdish nation from parts of Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

on a study which finds that a number of small businesses account for most of the 10.5 million new jobs which have been created in the last four years. These rapid growth companies are referred to as, 'gazelles,' and include Netscape, Boston Market, and Southwest Airlines.

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr speaks with Ahmad Chalabi (CHA-la-bee), President of the Iraqi National Congress,--a coalition of Sunni, Shi'it and Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq--and Robert Satloff, Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near East, about the future of opposition to Saddam Hussein.