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We hear Mary Martin sing 'It Might as Well be Spring' from the musical State Fair. State Fair is currently being performed on broadway, but this famous tune is not elibile for a Toni Award tonight because it was written for the motion picture version of the musical.

Hawaiian Leslie Lang didn't learn to speak her native language until she went to college. Her parents never spoke it, and she rarely heard it spoken. But she finds the ancient language of her family has brought her in touch with stories and traditions which had all but disappeared for her family. She can read the stories of her Great Great Great grandfather, and she can talk with her grandmother in the language that she herself hasn't heard spoken in 50 years. Leslie Lang is a student at the University of Hawaii.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr discusses the politics of welfare reform with Douglas Besharov, of the American Enterprise Institute, and David Ellwood of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Scott speaks with filmmaker Joshua Seftel about his documentary "Taking On the Kennedys." It appears on the public television series "P.O.V" next week, and it tells the story of Kevin Vigilante's 1994 Congressional campaign against Patrick Kennedy in Rhode Island.

- Harriet Baskas reports on the origin of the Soap Opera. These daytime serial dramas date back to the 1930's and the early days of radio. Most of the advertisers on these programs manufactured household products - so the shows were dubbed "soaps." We'll hear excerpts from many radio soaps,including TODAY'S CHILDREN, THE GUIDING LIGHT, and JOYCE JORDAN,M.D. - and we'll hear interviews with some of the actors who performed in them.

- NPR's Laura Ziegler reports that in Bob Dole's Kansas, moderates and religious conservatives are fighting for control of the state Republican Party.

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Noah talks with Edmund Roy, an India-based reporter for the Australian Broadasting Corporation, about yesterday's elections in the state of Kashmir. Government troops forced citizens to vote, herding them to polling stations, threatening them if they didn't participate. Exit polls show more than 40 percent of the people voted, but Roy says the day's events call into question the notion of free and fair elections in democratic India.

The ceasefire in Liberia that has kept warring factions peaceful for almost two weeks has been broken. U.S. Marines today killed three Liberians near the American Embassy compound in Monrovia and wounded a fourth. The men were shot after fighting broke out in the capital. An American soldier was slightly wounded in today's fighting. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden who's in the Liberian capital of Monrovia.