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  • Host Liane Hansen speaks with Fred Barnes, White House orrespondent for The New Republic magazine, and Kate Phillips, olitical editor for New York Newsday, about the President's State of he Union address and legislation passed this past week on Capitol ill.
  • SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH DENISE DRESSER, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE AT MEXICO'S EXTAM (EE-tom) UNIVERSITY, ABOUT THE PERSONAL EFFECT OF MEXICO'S ECONOMIC CRISIS.
  • Fifty years ago today the United States military rchestrated an amphibious landing on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima (EE-woh EE-mah). This operation sparked one of the most intense battles of World War wo. Host Liane Hansen travelled to the Iwo Jima memorial at the National emetery in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, and spoke to those who ad come to remember the decisive battle.
  • In the final installment of the NPR series 'The Subject is Sex,' Reporter Ginger Miles describes how her expectations of adulthood as a college student were very different from the way things turned out.
  • NPR's movie critic, Bob Mondello, reviews the little-noticed movie about the troubled marriage of poet T.S. Eliot and his wife, Vivian. It's already garnered two Oscar nominations.
  • NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the presidential candidates opening season. The top Republican hopefuls appeared on the Sunday morning talk shows just before kicking off the 1996 run for the White House.
  • Jacki talks to Ken Khachikian, who worked on President Reagan's State of the Union address in 1987. He says that President Clinton has an opportunity to take control of the direction of the country when he delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday, and that it could also be the beginning of his re-election campaign.
  • NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that both the Republican and Democatic Natinal Committees are meeting this weekend to strategize about the future of their parties.
  • We hear a few letters from our listeners.
  • NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on a proposal that several governors have put together which would define how hundreds of federal programs could be combined into a handfull of blockgrants. The proposal would limit the funds going directly from Washington to cities.
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