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An index of the day's stories: SOROS ON HILL -- NPR's John Ydstie reports on rising concerns about the global economic crisis. On Capitol Hill, the House Banking Committee is conducting 3 days of hearings on financial and economic turmoil. Today they heard from one of the world's pre-eminent capitalists, hedge-fund manager George Soros. NPR's John Ydstie reports. (2:00) WORLD ECONOMY -- Linda talks with Walter Russell Mead, a senior fellow on US Foreign Policy and a political economist at the Council on Foreign Relations. They discuss President Clinton's proposal for an international conference on the global economy. Mead says that it is time to shift attention from the problems inherent to inflation to the issues that surround deflation, which he claims is more dangerous. (3:30) POLL OF POLLS -- Robert and Linda have an overview of the results of some polls that have been conducted to gauge the public's reaction to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report and how it's affected public opinion about the President. (3:00) TALIBAN -- NPR's Mike Shuster reports that the conflict between Shia Iran and Afghanistan's Sunni Taliban is first and foremost a religious conflict between two historically opposed sects of Islam. But the conflict is broader, encompassing strategic, economic and ethnic elements that could fuel a wider regional conflict that could also envelop Pakistan. (5:00) FOR KINGS AND PLANETS -- Reviewer Alan Cheuse says that the new book For Kings and Planets by Ethan Canin is one of the best to be published by a younger writer in recent memory. It's the story of a man who goes to Columbia University and experiences the tensions between city and country, Midwest and East, finally finding out about life in a classic coming-of-age story. For Kings and Planets by Ethan Canin is published by Random House. (2:30) BOSNIAN ELECTION -- NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Sarajevo on a delay in the release of results from this weekend's general election in Bosnia. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which organized the vote, was supposed to announce partial results today. But the OSCE says making public incomplete returns would not be in the interest of establishing the legitimacy of the vote. There is speculation that ballots counted so far put hard-line nationalists in the lead, an outcome the OSCE does not want to see. (3:30) POST-DAYTON -- Robert talks with Roger Cohen, the Berlin bureau chief for the New York Times. He was the Balkan bureau chief from 1994 to 1995, and is the author of Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo. They discuss the status of the Balkan region since the Dayton Peace Accords. (6:00) Hearts Grown Brutal is published by Random House. INTERVENE -- Commentator Iain Guest says that Kosovo is being emptied of its ethnic Albanian residents, as they flee shelling and other violence. Guest says that this is all part of Slobodan Milosevic's plan for destroying the Kosovar independence movement. (3:00) ANDREW BIRD -- Linda talks to violinist Andrew Bird about his new CD, Thrills. Bird says that he likes to evoke a sound of the 1930s and 40s with his music. "Thrills by Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire is available from Rykodisc, catalogue number RCD 10397. (8:15) NEW LEGAL TEAM -- NPR's Mara Liasson reports that the White House has hired some additional legal and political help to assist the president in dealing with the Starr report and any possible impeachment inquiry. Clinton aides are still trying to figure out the best strategy for dealing with the current crisis. Democrats have warned Clinton's legal team to stop emphasizing their argument that the president was ``legally accurate'' when he testified in the Paula Jones case that he had not had sex with Monica Lewinsky. They say this line of argument is foolish politically. (3:00) CLINTON & MILITARY & MONICA -- NPR's Martha Raddatz reports from Washington on the status of President Clinton's relationship with the military. The president meets today with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other top military commanders for the first time since Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report was released. The meeting at Ft. McNair has the potential to be particularly uncomfortable since a number of military leaders have recently faced disciplinary action for behavior similar to Mr. Clinton's relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. (5:00) MEANWHILE, IN CONGRESS -- NPR's Brian Naylor reports that House members are trying to weigh whether to proceed with an impeachment inquiry against President Clinton. But while they're doing so, they're also continuing to debate the more pressing issues of the day....like whether or not to pass the Speed Trafficking Life in Prison Act or to enact a resolution congratulating Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. (3:00) OH CONGRESSWOMAN -- Democratic congressional candidate Roxanne Qualls has reversed a decision she made and will now appear with President Clinton when he visits Cincinnati tomorrow. Qualls is in a tight contest with Republican Representative Steve Chabot in November, and many observers are wondering what effect, if any, her decision to embrace the president will have on her campaign. From Cincinnati, Maryanne Zeleznik of member station WNKU reports. (4:00) DEEPAK RAM -- Music critic Charles de Ledesma reviews a new CD by Deepak Ram called Flute for Thought. Ram is South African by birth, but he is influenced by the great classical flautists of India. A variety of well experienced musicians appear with Ram and contribute to the spirited sound of his CD. Deepak Ram's Flute for Thought is released on M.E.L.T. 2000 Records and can be purchased online at www.melt2000.com (3:30) PROSTATE CANCER -- Two studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association show that aggressive treatment is the best way to treat the most aggressive kinds of prostate cancer, but that all kinds of treatments -- including just watchful waiting -- fared equally well with the least aggressive cancers. NPR's Wendy Schmelzer has a report. (4:30) JUPITER'S RINGS -- Astronomers analyzing data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft announced today that they have solved a long-standing mystery -- the origin of Jupiter's rings. NPR's Richard Harris explains that dust from the Jupiter's moons is one factor...scientists say they've also found evidence of a new ring around the planet. (3:00) The new images can be found at these three web sites:
GOODNIGHT, HAYES -- Commentator Marion Winik talks about one very long night spent trying to get her son to go to bed. She says it was a night in which she broke all the rules of parenting. (5:00) FAMILY NAME -- Leda Hartman of member station WUNC reports on the documentary Family Name. Airing tonight on public television stations across the country, Family Name is the story of what happened when filmmaker Mackey Alston went rummaging through his family's slaveholding past. The North Carolina man discovered that there was a very good reason why he and many of his black school mates have the same last name. Family Name is part of the POV series and airs at 10pm Eastern time on many PBS stations. (8:00)
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