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NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that Sen. Robert Dole now faces the challenge of keeping up with President Clinton, who seems to be adopting one Republican idea after another.

Noah talks with Paul Dickson, author of "The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball," about the long tradition of using scorecards to follow the game of baseball and its players.

Susan speaks with NPR's Ann Garrels in Moscow about the ceasefire that was supposed to go into effect at midnight Friday in Chechnya. Fighting continued today despite the agreement to halt fighting, an agreement Russia's president Boris Yeltsin concluded this week with the Chechen rebel leader.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports from Sarajevo on a change in the leadership among the Bosnian Serbs. Over the weekend, the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, [RAH-doh-van KARE-uh-jitch] decided to give up dealing with the international community. He appointed Biljana Plavsic [bee-YAH-nah PLAHV-sitch] to act for him. International observers say the change will not make it easier to deal with the Bosnian Serbs. Plavsic is known as a hard-liner who will probably continue Karadzic's policies.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on Israeli youth and how they might vote in next week's election. Whereas young people used to be more hawkish than their elders, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in November has pushed them toward the Labor Party because, they say, it is the party more concerned with peace.

In the Midwest, unemployment rates are at their lowest in decades. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that midwestern employers are offering competitive wages and benefits in order to attract enough workers.

A monument to journalists killed while performing their jobs was dedicated this week in Arlington, Virginia. Scott speaks with Peter Pritchard of the Freedom Forum, which sponsored the memorial. We also hear part of a speech from the ceremony, given by the mother of one of the journalists honored.

Scott and NPR's Daniel Schorr review the week's news.

Scott reads letters from listeners.

2: Jazz pianist and songwriter, DAVE FRISHBERG, sings his School House Rock classic, "I'm Just a Bill" . And LOU BARLOW, whose group The Deluxx Folk Implosion perform the contemporary version of "I'm Just a Bill" on the new release of School House Rock.

Scott and NPR's Daniel Schorr review the weeks news.

Scott talks with Mark Goodman, Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center in Roslyn, VA about a recent incident at Louisianna State University where some minority students threw out all the copies of the free student paper because of articles it was running on the Ku Klux Klan.