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ROGER CONNOR is founder and Executive Director of the American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities (AARR), a legal organization aimed at making individuals more responsible for their communities. CONNOR and the AARR have been active in helping communities enact anti-panhandling laws. His group recently drafted a law making it illegal for panhandlers to step in someone's path, or to panhandle in subway stations or at ATM machines. CONNOR talks today about how panhandling affects communities, and what individuals and governments can do to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty

Musician and record producer, RON LEVY. He was asked to played in B.B. King's band, when he was just out of high school. He went on to form "Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom, and recorded with the "luminaries" of the late seventies blue wave revival: Kim Wilson and Jimmie Vaughan and others. He started producing for Rounder Records and ended up working with old blues legends on Rounder's Blues label. LEVY has long championed the Hammond B-3 organ which has come back into vogue. And he has a new Wild Kingdom release, "B-3, Blues and Grooves." (Ro

T-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "Tribeca," which premieres tonight on Fox. It"s a drama series, and Robert DeNiro is one of the producers.

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Two archive interviews with singer-songwriter ELVIS COSTELLO. First, we present a conversation from 1989, then we fast forward to an interview recorded earlier this year (1/27/94). In the late 1970s COSTELLO burst out of Britain's pop-music scene as the angry young man with a fresh sound. He's known for making connections between different musical communities. He's collaborated with Paul McCartney, Ruben Blades, Aimee Mann of "'til Tuesday," David Was of "Was (Not Was)," and T. Bone Burnett. Now COSTELLO is back with his original band, "The Attractions," and with producer Nick Lowe. Their latest release is "Brutal Youth," (Warner Bros).

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews E.L. Doctorow''s new novel, "The Waterworks."

2: Writer and former film maker GRETEL EHRLICH is the author of "The Solace of Open Spaces," a collection of essays about life on Wyoming's high plains. It was while walking on the Wyoming plains, that EHRLICH was struck by lightning. The force of it threw her forty feet, severly damaged part of her nervous system, and sent her into a "solitary limbo." EHRLICH returned to her parents home for medical treatment and began trying to understand what happened to her. She found explanations in medical books and in The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which described a wandering state between life and death, confusion and enlightenment. EHRLICH's new book is "A Match to the Heart." (Pantheon).

Rock critic KEN TUCKER. Subject T.B.A.

ABDULAZIZ A. SACHEDINA is a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He has been studying the recent world-wide rise of Islamic fundamentalism

Book critic JOHN LEONARD review Philip Roth''s new book, "Operation Shylock."

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "The 60s" a new collection of essays and journal writings by Edmund Wilson from 1960 to 1972.