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Film Critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Higher Learning". The new film from director John Singleton. A film featuring actors Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube and Omar Epps.

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Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews two collections by country singer George Jones, plus a new release by Jones. The albums are "Cup of Loneliness: The Classic Mercury Years" (Mercury), "The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country" (Epic) and "The Bradley''s Barn Sessions" (MCA).

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Fred Barnes, White House orrespondent for The New Republic magazine, and Kate Phillips, olitical editor for New York Newsday, about the President's State of he Union address and legislation passed this past week on Capitol ill.

MUSIC Q: SCOTT HAS SOME THOUGHTS ON THIS WEEK'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ.

NPR'S DEAN OLSHER LOOKS AT THE REASONS BEHIND THE GENDER GAP IN JAZZ.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Journalists MICHELLE SLATALLA and JOSHUA QUITTNER both work for Newsday. They've collaborated on a new book, "Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace," (HarperCollins). It's about two rival gangs of teenage computer hackers in New York City: Masters of Deception and the Legion of Doom. The gangs, broke into phone company computers, downloaded confidential credit histories, and broke into private and corporate computer files. The rivalry was friendly until a computer remark by one hacker set off a "gang war." (MORE ON THE COMPUTER GANGS IN THE SECOND

A 'Fresh Air' concert with NICK LOWE. His newest recording is "The Impossible Bird" (Upstart Records). 1994 revives Lowe's solo career. Lowe in the early 1970s played London's pub rock scene in the band Brinsley Schwarz. After the band broke up in 1975, he produced five albums for Elvis Costello. Lowe worked with Dave Edmundsin the group Rockpile. In 1992 he was one quarter of the band "Little Village" with John Hiatt and Ry Cooder. Lowe begins a national concert tour this month in the United States.

NPR'S LYNN NEARY REPORTS ON THE SUGGESTION FROM SOME REPUBLICANS THAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR HELP TO DEFRAY SOME OF THE COSTS OF WELFARE REFORM. SHE VISITS SOME CATHOLIC-RUN CHARITIES' PROGRAMS -- AMONG THE BIGGEST PRIVATE PROGRAMS -- AND FINDS THAT, THERE, GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IS ALSO LARGE.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on a last minute U.S. and China agreement that will avert a trade war over pirated music, movies and computer software.

NPR'S BRIAN NAYLOR REPORTS ON YESTERDAY'S SENATE APPROVAL OF THE SO-CALLED UNFUNDED MANDATES BILL. IT PROTECTS THE STATES FROM EXPENSIVE REQUIREMENTS IMPOSED ON THEM BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, WHEN FUNDING IS NOT PROVIDED.