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"Tin Cup," a romantic comedy about golf, starring Kevin Costner and Renee Russo. Sports have been prominent in Shelton's other movies too, such as >Bull Durham. But, he says, he considers sports to be the setting in which characters interact.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on new speculation about Russia, Chechnya and who's in charge in the Kremlin. Russian President Boris Yeltsin is out of town. And the man he put in charge of running government policy in Chehcnya, his security chief Alexander Lebed, is fighting on two fronts. While he works at settling the war in Chechnya, he's in daily battles with the bureaucracy in the Kremlin. The most recent attack from Lebed against the Kremlin is that Yeltsin's signature on recent decrees concerning Chechnya are facsimiles and not original.

Commentator John Rosenthal recalls going to a lot of weddings in the 60's-- thats when he first got started as a photographer and always offered to take the pictures for free-- He notes the strange reasons people decided to hook up in those days and how fleeting some of the marriages were.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the new novel by Marilyn French, "My Summer With George." (

who helped devise Bob Dole's economic proposal. Taylor defends the premise that Dole can implement a fifteen percent income tax cut, a fifty percent reduction in the capital gains tax rate, and a 500 dollar per-child tax credit, all that while still balancing the budget in six years.

- Danny talks withg NPR's Linda Gradstein about the resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian authority. Gradstein says today's meeting was mainly procedural and that the real peace talks will begin in earnest tomorrow. Just before today's talks began, Secretary of State Warren Christopher warned both sides that the talks have to produce concrete results or else the Middle East will slide back into a cycle of violence.

Commentator Jim Wallis says during election season, the poor do not exist---they don't have political clout or power---even though how we treat the poor is really the best test of how we define ourselves as a community. Wallis says both candidates ignore the poor and therefore ignore the growing economic divide between rich and poor in this nation...a divide that can only lead to other great societal ills.

The public university system in Minnesota is trying to change the tenure system. Martin Kaste [KAH-stee] of Minnesota Public Radio reports that some professors are trying to unionize to fight the changes, but others fear a union could bring as many restrictions as the proposed tenure changes.

Commentator Marion Winik details her experience preparing for and appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show". She was hoping Oprah would rave about her memoir, clutch it to her chest, and make it a best seller. Instead, the experience sort of fell flat...except for the great blouse she bought herself for the event.

NPR's David Molpus reports that one of the major issues facing this country, racial division, has rarely been addressed in this year's presidential election. Although the candidates touch upon the issue in oblique ways, through discussions of affirmative action, immigration and jobs, neither has talked directly about how to bring together the nation's diverse population.

NPR's Steve Inskeep has been following one of this year's tight congressional races, between incumbent Democrat Paul McHale and Republican challenger Bob Kilbanks. One of the big factors as the campaign becomes increasingly tense is fundraising -- and Kilbanks is running into problems because some in the business community are still bitter that he beat their favorite candidate in the primary, or they think Kilbanks is too conservative to win.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that the Defense Department says it is starting to refocus its investigation of illnesses among Gulf War veterans as a result of recent revelations that some troops may have been exposed to chemical weapons during clean-up efforts after the war. The Pentagon's top doctor, Steven Joseph, says the realization is "a watershed" in trying to understand the mysterious ailments. The Pentagon now presumes some soldiers have been exposed to chemical weapons, though no illnesses have been clearly linked to the chemicals.