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NPR'S ANNE GARRELS REPORTS ON WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BUY A HOUSE IN MOSCOW.

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews a reissue by the late mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian: Luciano Berio''s "Recital I for Cathy and Folk Songs."

Psychologist KAY REDFIELD JAMISON is an authority on manic-depression, and the author of the 1993 book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, (Free Press/MacMillan). Recently JAMISON disclosed her own 30-year battle with manic-depression in the new memoir, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Knopf). JAMISON is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including Colin Powell on abortion, gun control and in-school prayer; ttorney General Janet Reno speaking about on-line pornography; and House peaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton on welfare reform.

THE FIFTH INSTALLMENT OF OUR SEMI-REGULAR RADIO SERIAL ... "JULIUS KNIPL (KEH-nipple): REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER."

SIMON/RAPPOPORT: WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT LOOKS BACK AT A WEEK OF BASEBALL PLAYOFF ACTION.

British writer NICK HORNBY. His autobiographical memoir about being an obsessed soccer fan, Fever Pitch (1992, now in paperback, Penguin) achieved cult status. With his second book, and his first novel High-Fidelity one reviewer writes that HORNBY has "established himself in England as a maestro of the male confessional." High-Fidelity (Riverhead Books, div. of Putnam) is about 36-year old Rob Fleming, an obsessed record-collector, who's just lost his girlfriend, a casualty of his devotion to music.

IN CELEBRATION OF WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY, WE CONTINUE THE AIRING OF SOME OF OUR FAVORITE PIECES. THIS WEEK WE OFFER A STORY FROM 1990, WHICH PROFILED IDENTICAL TWIN SISTERS MARRIED TO IDENTICAL TWIN BROTHERS.

Liane Hansen speaks with Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence age, and John McCaslin, political writer for the Washington Times, about the ickering between Congress and the White House over the partial shutdown of the ederal government.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Beth Katcher from Newton, assachusetts, who listens to member station WBUR.)

CYNTHIA LENNON was the first wife of Beatle musician John Lennon. Terry talked with Cynthia in 1985. .She wrote a book about her years with Lennon in 1978 called A Twist of Lennon by Avon. They met in art school in 1957 and were married in 1962. During the years John toured the world, as a member of the most popular rock group in history, Cynthia was at home raising their son Julian. Cynthia and John Lennon divorced in 1968 after John fell in love with Yoko Ono. John Lennon was killed 12 years later. As their son, Julian, launched his own career as a musician, Cynthia Lennon developed her work as a designer. (Originally aired 8

TOVIA SMITH REPORTS ON A SCHOOL IN BOSTON THAT MUST IMPROVISE THE WRITTEN FORM OF A LANGUAGE--CAPE VERDEAN-- THAT HAS NO REAL ALPHABET, BECAUSE OF STRINGENT BILINGUAL EDUCATION LAWS IN THE STATE.