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Commentator GERALD EARLY reflects on the legacy of Booker T. Washington, who among other things, founded the Tuskegee Institute. Today is the 100th anniversary of a speech given by Washington at the Atlanta Exposition, which celebrated a "new" industrialized, post-reconstruction South.

AS THE FOURTH U.N.'S WOMEN'S CONFERENCE CONCLUDED, NPR'S JULIE McCARTHY REPORTS FROM BEIJING ON WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED AND WHAT THE RESULTING DRAFTED DOCUMENTS MEAN.

IN LIGHT OF ACTS COMMITTED AND DOCUMENTED BY THE LIKES OF SENATOR ROBERT PACKOOD, DETECTIVE MARK FUHRMAN AND RICHARD NIXON, SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH JERROLD POST, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY - SPECIALIZING IN THE STUDY OF PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOR IN WORLD LEADERS - AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN WASHINGTON, D.C., AND ASKS THE QUESTION...WHY WOULD SOMEONE KNOWINGLY CREATE A RECORD OF HIS OWN INDISCRETIONS?

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Steve Inskeep of member station WBGO reports on the world chess championship being played atop the World Trade Center in New York City. The games feature long-time champion Garry Kasparov (kah-SPAHR-off) of Russia and Viswanathan Anand (VEESH-wanuh-thun uh-NAHnd) of India.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH CARL LEUBSDORF (LUBES-dorf), WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF OF THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS AND WILLIAM NEIKIRK (MIGH-kirk), WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, ABOUT THE TWO PRESIDENT CLINTONS: THE GREAT CONCILIATOR AND THE VETO PEN-BRANDISHER.

This weekend marks the 20th year of the Twins Days Festival n Twinsburg, Ohio. Host Liane Hansen speaks with participant and researcher Dr. onald Keith about what he hopes to discover by studying some of the 3,000 sets f twins expected to participate in the convention over the next two days.

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For the record, we hear how President Harry Truman explained his decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima to the American people. These are excerpts from a speech Truman made on August 9, 1945, three days after Hiroshima was destroyed.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR ANALYSES THE BOSNIAN AGREEMENT WITH DR. DANIEL N. NELSON, PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY IN NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, WHO HAS JUST RETURNED FROM BOSNIA, AND MARSHALL HARRIS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE ACTION COUNCIL FOR PEACE IN THE BALKANS AND FORMER BOSNIA SPECIALIST IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT.

NPR'S DEAN OLSHER REPORTS ON THE RAPIDLY CHANGING FACE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE, AND ON QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THE INDUSTRY BACKS ITS CLAIMS.