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Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and ord games. 7:54 (This week's on-air player lives in Huntington Beach, alifornia and listens to KCRW, Santa Monica and KPCC, Pas

This past week talk show hosts from around the country ave been broadcasting live from Capitol Hill. NPR's Chitra Ragavan poke to several of them about the role their programs play in today's olitical arena.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says last Tuesday's tate of the Union address shows that President Clinton is of two inds.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Merril Peterson, Professor meritus of History at the University of Virginia, about his book, "Lincoln in merican Memory" (Oxford University Press, 1994). In his work Peterson examines incoln's image in American thought and how the strands of that image have been nterpreted and adpated over the years.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says the recent flaps over the ouse Historian, the Enola Gay exhibit and history curriculum guidelines for chools show that "political correctness" is affecting the interpretation of istory.

As the Israeli Parliament the "Knessit" decides on the fate of the borders between Israel and the Palestinian - controlled Gaza strip, Danny talks to Washington Post reporter Glenn Frankl. Frankl, who has covered the region for many years, feels that whether the border is kept closed or left open the situation is very tenuous. Frankl's new book is called "Beyond the Promised Land - Jews and Arabs on a hard road to a new Israel.

Liane Hansen remembers legendary actor, writer, roducer, and director George Abbott with an essay, music, and short excerpts rom their 1989 interview. The multi-talented showman died this past week at the ge of 107.

Is the O.J. Simpson case the "trial of the entury"? We asked passersby in front of the Supreme Court for their pinions. Then we put the question to Edward Knappman (NAPP-man), ditor of the reference book "Great American Trials" (published by isible Ink).

LETTERS: We hear a few comments and letters from our listeners

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