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David Callahan's book Kindred Spirits chronicles the achievements of Harvard Business School's class of l949. The year produced leaders of many top American enterprises, including Xerox, Bloomingdale's, Capital City-ABC and the Sequoia Fund. Callahan speaks with NPR's John Ydstie and Joe Nocera of Fortune magazine.

The New York City police department asks a federal judge for permission to spy on political groups, before having evidence of wrongdoing. The police department says the increased powers are necessary in order to fight terrorism. Critics say existing rules are flexible enough to give police the latitude they need. Marianne McCune reports.

Noah Adams talks with Steve Sternberg, a reporter for USA Today about the 8th Annual Retrovirus Conference in Chicago. At the conference, the Centers for Disease Control announced it will use a new tactic in fighting the spread of the AIDS, emphasizing the need to educate people already infected with HIV. The goal is to cut the number of new infections in half by the year 2005. Also released at the conference: a study that shows a third of gay black men in large U.S. cities are HIV positive.

The Living Daylights are a young trio from Seattle that mix jazz, rock, and Eastern European influences to create music that's hard to categorize. Some critics have described it as jazz-rock fusion...but it's much more edgy than its' 1970's predecessor. Living Daylights' new CD is called, Electric Rosary. Marcie Sillman, of member station KUOW, has a profile. (7:45) Electric Rosary, by the Living Daylights is on Liquid City Records, catalog number LQC 35454.

The Ivory Coast's military government has decreed a state of emergency and imposed a curfew on the country's main city, after troops clashed with supporters of an opposition candidate from Sunday's presidential election. Military ruler General Robert Guei called off the vote-count and proclaimed himself the victor in the election. But initial returns showed the opposition leader Laurent Gbago with a commanding lead -- and he has also declared himself president. NPR's Kenneth Walker in Abidjan reports.

The mayor of Denver, Colorado says he doesn't want to jump on the bandwagon of cities renaming their sports stadiums after corporate sponsors. AT&T Broadband, Janus Capital Corporation and Invesco have all expressed interest in paying to have their names on the new home field for the Denver Broncos football team. Noah Adams talks with Mayor Wellington Webb about why he wants to keep the name "Mile High Stadium," despite the possible benefits to taxpayers from a corporate name.

Robert talks with Judith E. Daykin, President of City Center in Manhattan, about the discovery of valuable scripts in a closet that may not have been opened for forty years. The scripts were in Max Liebman's closet. Liebman was a producer of the early television comedy series Your Show of Shows, The Admiral Broadway Revue and other television productions. He died in 1981, and the closet in his office was closed and painted shut.

A German man caused a stir in Frankfurt when he hijacked a small aircraft, flew it near tall buildings in the city's financial district and threatened to crash into the European Central Bank. Police have the man in custody and say the Sunday incident is apparently not tied to terrorism. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Graduate student workers at Columbia University in New York City are demanding greater pay and benefits.

The city selected a proposal from the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center to determine the fate of the statue.