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Linda and Noah discuss the opening of the thirty-sixth Republican National Convention in San Diego, California. Republicans are hoping that this meeting will showcase their ideas and their candidates...and can help jump-start the Dole campaign. Patrick Buchanan's withdrawal from the race and endorsement of Dole earlier today has helped pave the way for a greater party unity...which is what the convention is hoping to accomplish.

The Firesign Theatre brings us a surrealistic episode of Bob Hind and his Golden Hind Specialty Cruises, as he welcomes Peggy and Vernon Soccermom from Elmertown, who recently went for a vacation. They recount the authentic Irish experience they had at the oldest pub at the airport.

Robert talks with NPR's Anne Garrels in Moscow about tomorrow's presidential run-off election. There is no campaigning today; Russian election law forbids it. Polls open Wednesday morning at 8 a.m. local time and close at 10 p.m. There are 93-thousand polling stations spread across Russia's 11 time zones. Russian President Boris Yeltsin is facing Communist Gennady Zyuganov ((gen-NAH-dee zyu-GAH-noff)). The campaign has been overshadowed by questions about Yeltsin's health, and yesterday, Yeltsin re-appeared after a five-day absence from public appearances. Since then he has remained at home...his aides say he is working on documents.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports the judges hearing Microsoft's appeal of its antitrust case raised serious questions about the government's plan to split the company in two. The seven-judge panel suggested they may send the breakup order back to a lower court to be reconsidered. The appeals court panel also expressed concerns about the way the district court judge handled the case and comments he made to reporters while the trial was still in session.

President Clinton was in Atlanta today, to commemorate the birthday of Martine Luther King, Junior. We hear remarks the President made at The Reverend Doctor King's former pulpit at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. (1:30) 11. LETTER FROM THE BIRMINGHAM JAIL - On this observance of the birthday of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., we hear an excerpt of a letter written by King while he was imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. He is responding to a letter written by several white clergymen who criticized King's acts of civil disobedience and suggested his civil rights agenda could best be achieved in the courts. The exceprt is read by actor Wilson Cain III.

NPR's Barbara Mantel has the first in a series of reports on student teacher Lea Ricci (LEE-uh RICH-ee), a student teacher at Fordham College who begins her first week of student teaching at Emerson High School in Yonkers, New York. Ricci will be paired with an experienced teacher at Emerson, and she says she's looking forward to learning from a teacher who's already worked with kids. But she's also hoping to try out some of her ideas about getting the kids involved in exciting, hands-on teaching methods, and wonders whether the reality of the classroom will accommodate her ideas about teaching.

We're heading to the land down under in this game. Put on your best Australian accent to deliver the answers, all of which end in "mate."

What kind of world are we leaving younger generations? Manhattan teenager Josh Rittenberg says all parents worry about their children's futures. But he believes he and his peers will see a better world.

Tim Carney, the last American ambassador to Sudan before the United States downgraded relations in 1997, wants to promote a broader view of the country through a new collection of photographs. NPR foreign correspondent Michele Kelemen reviews Carney's book, Sudan: The Land and the People.