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from the Poe short story "The Black Cat" by Rene Auberjonis

Argentina agrees to pay a settlement decided by a Los Angeles court this week to compensate a victim of its "dirty war." NPR's Mandelit Del Barco reports.

reports on the redevelopment of the Potsdamer Plots the central business area in Berlin.

The Democratic National Convention has attracted only a smattering of protests and most of these have been held in small ``official'' protest areas, for which groups had to apply for a city permit. It's a far cry from the thousands of angry protesters, whose confrontations with police in Chicago twenty-eight years ago marked the last Democratic convention in the city. NPR's Scott Simon reports.

which threatens to derail the Dayton peace process. The names of candidates for local office have been removed from ballots on the grounds that municipal elections are 'not feasible' at present. Under the Dayton accords, local elections were to take place at the same time as national elections. The elections begin today with the casting of absentee ballots by Bosnian refugees. Voting inside Bosnia is scheduled for September 14th.

DR. DAVID SPIEGEL, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. His groundbreaking study (1989) of breast cancer patients showed that women who had psychosocial interventon lived twice as long, after diagnosis, as those without that intervention. His book, "Living Beyond Limits" (paperback, Ballintine Books) covers research on mind/body interactions, how to build sustaining support networks, control pain through self-hypnosis and detoxify fears of dying. Dr Spiegel says, "the fact we do not control death does not mean we cannot control how we live in the face of dying." (REBROADCAST FROM 9/

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including President Bill Clinton, Secretary of Defense William erry, State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, President of the Reform Party oss Perot, Pat Choate, vice presidential nominee of the Reform Party and epublican presidential nominee Bob Dole.

While the overwhelming majority of black voters vote Democratic, some feel that the Democratic party takes them for granted and does not address all of their concerns. At the same time, the Republican presidential ticket -- Bob Dole and Jack Kemp -- says it will make a special effort this year to reach out to black voters, who have sometimes been written off by the Republican Party. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.

Commentator Joan Steinau Lester, like many other gays and lesbians, is going to hold her nose and vote for Bill Clinton in November. She's unhappy about the waffling, and the mixed signals he's sent America's gays -- Clinton says he's for equal rights, but he's been cautious about showing it.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the debate over how to train and certify the next generation of teachers. An estimated 2 million new teachers will enter the nation's schools in the next decade, and many educators favor national standards and other measures as a way of ensuring that the next generation of teachers is qualified. But others say a state and local approach is more appropriate, and some feel making we need to loosen up the rules for teacher certification as a way of encouraging people to get on the job training in the profession.

the city of New Orleans held a memorial ceremony for the legendary cornetist Buddy Bolden, 65 years after he died. Bolden is the man who, many believe, was the first to play the music we call jazz. Dean Olsher reports.