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President Clinton's east coast campaign.

in mutual funds. Today, she examines the complexities of assessing risk.

The school district in Cleveland, Ohio is in trouble. The district has been taken over by the state...and now parents, educators and students are involved in a new experiment that many say will save the system. Others say the program will kill the public schools altogether. Poor families are eligible for school vouchers which can be used at private schools... even Catholic schools. This is the only voucher program in the country that includes Catholic schools, and voucher advocates are hoping it will prove their contention that public schools need competition if they're ever going to improve. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

backed away from its promised reform of Mexico's electoral system.

- Daniel talks with political writer Sidney Blumenthal (New Yorker magazine) about his play, "This Town," which is a send-up of the Washington Press Corps. Blumenthal, is critical of the celebrity culture, which he says, permeates Washington journalism. The play was performed this past week at The Washington Press Club - before an audience of journalists.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr examines the second erms of previous presidents and tells us many of them shifted their focus to oreign affairs.

in Chicago.

Commentator Malcolm MacKinnon likes walking around the house at night, with the lights of his electronic appliances all around him. He says they're a comforting reminder of living in the modern age, and guide him around the darkened rooms like small beacons.

Poet and novelist MICHAEL ONDAATJE (on-DAH-chay). He won Britian's highest literary prize, the Booker Prize, for his novel set in post World War II, "The English Patient," (Vintage Books). ONDAATJE was born in Cyelon (now Sri Lanka), emigrated to England, and now lives in Canada. He also has written a personal memoir, "Running in the Family," (Vintage) about his eccentric family. Both books are now out in paperback. "The English Patient" has been made into a new film. (REBROADCAST from 1

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports on a controversial National Park Service project to remove wild ponies from the outer banks of North Carolina. The Park Service says the ponies are destroying the island's natural vegetation; animal rights activists are worried about the ponies' precarious futures.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on what appears to be a split vote on six Congressional House seats up for grabs this election. The state was seen as a bellwether for the conservative shift in 1994, when six seats flipped from Democratic to Republican. The margin was narrow in 1994, however, and this year's readjustment may indicate that 1994 wasn't such a strong rightward swing.

NPR's Kathy Schalch looks at sexual harassment in the workplace.