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Noah talks with Tim Weige, sports director at Chicago television station WBBM and a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, about today's news that the baseball owners have ratified a new five-year agreement with the players' union, effectively ending the dispute which began with the 1994 baseball strike. Under the agreement...the same one that was rejected by owners three weeks ago...there will be inter-league play in 1997, and a revenue sharing agreement for the smaller major-league baseball markets. Bud Selig, the interim commissioner of baseball, applauded the agreement, but leaders of the Major League Players' Association will have to meet next week to finalize the deal.

Commentator Kevin Kling thinks that the right haircut can do wonders for a person's outlook on life...transforming the timid to the bold, the shy to the extroverted. The wrong haircut, though...that's a different story.

Charles de Ledesma reviews From the Brothel to the Cemetary,a new album by a London-based group called the Tiger Lillies. The group plays a wonderful assortment of instruments, but what stands out is the quality of the lead singer's voice and the oddness of the lyrics.

minister charge over taxes and customs. Yeltsin hopes this order will be the key to cracking down on economic crime. The Russian president also ruled out changes to the constitution suggested by his foes, that would reduce Yeltsin's power.

in a criminal case and essentially guilty in a civil case, a la OJ. But no matter what you call it, lawyers are concerned about the increasing frequency of such seemingly disparate decisions.

Commentator David Brooks says that both Democrats and Republicans have adopted a "Kissingerian" foreign policy, putting nationalistic self-interest above idealism and the promotion of democracy.

Robert talks with classical guitarist Eliot Fisk. Fisk shares his life story with Robert... particularly, about how an attempt to bring the family together with music and a banjo led him to the great guitarist Andres Segovia. Now Fisk's life parallels the late Segovia and has released a recordings featuring transcriptions of Segovia's work. Eliot Fisk's latest CD is called Segovia: Canciones Populares. It's available on the Musicmasters Label. If not available at record stores locally, call J & R Music World, at 1-800-221-8180 to order.

Scott talks to chef Danny Meyer, one of the country's most influential chefs, about food trends to look for in 1997.

Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

and other members of the multinational force will be spending their second Christmas in Bosnia. But this time it will be under the auspices of SFOR, not IFOR.