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Robert talks with Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Center for People and the Press, about yesterday's elections and what the results mean for the nation. Kohut says that although there are discernable patterns in voting, there is no really defined pattern of what all the results of the races mean politically. Overall, mainstream political ideas carried the day...and neither the Republicans nor the Democrats ended up with a mandate.

Satirist Harry Shearer was recently struck by a thought about the A & E program Biography. What would happen if the show ran out of famous people to profile?

Commentator Baxter Black details a specific kind of person, at least in his world view -- the Horse Person.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Jeff Greenfield, Senior Analyst with CNN, about his book The People's Choice. Greenfield says he wrote the book 5 years ago to explore one of the most implausible election scenarios he could imagine. But now, his fiction doesn't seem too far from reality.

Commentator Paul Durrenberger discusses what being busy means in our society. He says that being busy is equated with being important, and that today's pecking order is determined by who waits for whom.

In the first part of a series this week on the tortured politics of the Balkans, Noah speaks with Susan Woodward, author of Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War. She offers a primer on who's who in the former Yugoslavia.

One-hundred-thirty prisoners in Washington and Oregon volunteered in the 1960s and 1970's to participate in a federally sponsored experiment to determine the affects of radiation on sperm production. After the experiments, they received vasectomies. Now they are seeking compensation from the federal government, saying they were coerced into taking part in the experiments. From KOPB in Portland Oregon, Jeff Brady reports.

In this week's StoryCorps, a conversation with Joseph Rogers Britton, a caregiver who has been working with AIDS patients for four decades.

Sharpe played a newly rich tech bro on vacation in The White Lotus. Now he's starring as Mozart, a musical genius who struggles to "read the room" in a new limited TV series.