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Popular culture commentator Steven Stark looks at ymbolism in politics, and wonders whether Lamar Alexander made a good choice hen he donned a plaid flannel chirt.

reaction to the passage of the Helms-Burton Bill tightening sanctions on Cuba.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that two U.S. Marines face court martial for refusing to give samples of their DNA. The military is collecting DNA samples from all the services to help identify the remains of casualties. But the marines are concerned that the information might be used for other things, and their privacy may be violated.

Linda talks with NPR's chief political correspondent Elizabeth Arnold about the string of Republican primaries and caucuses throughout the country today and how the results may affect the political futures of the GOP candidates.

Daniel Pinkwater is paging through National Geographic and comes across a picture of a remote Chinese village that has bagel s. And bagels that he says look pretty good. He mourns that fact that you can get good bagels in China, but not where he lives just a hundred miles north of New York City. He is stuck with the frozen erzatz kind.

Linda talks with NPR political correspondent Elizabeth Arnold in Arizona and Boston Globe reporter Jill Zuckman in Georgia about the latest developments from the GOP campaign trails.

NPR's Phillip Davis looks at the struggle over a valuable part of the broadcast spectrum. The TV industry wants the part that could be used for new digital television broadcasts to be assigned to them free-of-charge. The government is considering making companies buy the right to use that slice of the public airwaves.

We read a few of the early entries in our "Inane Use of the Third Person" contest.

One more step into turning the telephone line into a multi-media communications channel. AT&T announced yesterday that it will soon be offering its 90 million customers five hours of free access to the Internet every month for one year. It's estimated that more than 15 million of the company's subscribers already own computers and modems.

A Connecticut legislative committee yesterday heard testimony from one citizen who thinks the state should replace "Yankee Doodle" as the official state song. Certain references, say the citizen, are dated and sexist. We do a top-to-bottom analysis of the song to highlight its other possibly objectionable lyrics.