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Martha Bebinger of member station WBUR reports on the Monday's scheduled running of the 100th Boston Marathon. Event organizers are expecting more than 35 -thousand registered runners and untold numbers of gate-crashers trying to get in on the historic marathon.

Neal speaks with Joseph Nocera, contributing editor at Fortune Magazine, about the New York Yankees. The owner is threatening to move the venerable baseball franchise out of the City. The City is trying desperately to keep that from happening.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that America's role in bringing about a ceasefire in Lebanon teaches us that multilateral diplomacy is on the wane, and big stick diplomacy is in. It is the world's superpower, the U.S., Gjelten says, that other nations turn to when they want diplomatic assistance.

NPR'S MELISSA BLOCK PROFILES ROSE HAMBURGER. FOR NEARLY NINE DECADES, MS. HAMBURGER HAS BEEN PICKING HORSES IN RACES. NOW, AT THE AGE OF 105, SHE DOES IT FOR THE NEW YORK POST.

Frank Stasio reports that in a suburb of Washington, D.C., a group of Cambodian-American teachers is trying to keep alive the tradition of classical Cambodian dance. After the Cambodian genocide of the 1970's, the perpetuation of that art form was threatened, as most of Cambodia's artistic figures were murdered. Now, in the U.S., young Cambodian-Americans are reviving the dance.

Daniel talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about preparations at The Hague for Bosnia war crimes trials. A two week investigation into alleged slaughters outside Srebrenica ended yesterday. Investigators returned to The Hague with bags of physical evidence which will be used at the trials, the first of which begin in May. Only a handful of suspects are actually in custody.

Commentator Kevin Kling discovered a family secret, the day he was struck by lightning.

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President Clinton announced Sunday that the United States would be expanding cooperation with Israeli on missile defense. He said that the U-S would promise to provide more intelligence warnings of enemy launches and to step up development of a new laser weapon to shoot down Katyusha rockets. Robert Siegel talks with John Donnelly, who is a reporter for Defense Weekly and has been covering the laser program. Donnelly explains that the program is still being tested but Israel hopes that it will aid in the destruction of the artillery rockerts used by Hezbollah against targets in Northern Israel.

The Supreme Court heard arguments today on whether laws limiting campaign spending by political parties violates the First Amendment. If the justices were to rule in favor of unlimited spending by parties, it would in effect eliminate limits for individual candidates, most of whom run with the support of a party. NPR's Nina Totenberg takes a look at today's arguments.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that Israel's bombing of Lebanon over the past days has had the effect, in part, of shoring up support for Shimon Peres in the upcoming June election.

NPR's Eric Weiner looks at how the cease-fire between the Israeli's and Hezbollah might now effect the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.