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NPR's Mara Liasson reports that Bill Clinton today took the oath of office for his second term as President of the United States. In his inaugural speech he issued a passionate call for racial and political unity. "We must succeed as one America," he declared.

Commentator Murray Horwitz has been looking at a photo of Bill Cosby and his son Ennis for nearly ten years. The two are pictured on the cover of a book of photographs of fathers and their sons -- a book which also contains a photo of Horwitz and his son. Horwitz says that since the death of Ennis Cosby, the way he looks at the photo of the Cosbys has changed -- and so, maybe, has his relationship with his son. (3:00) ((STATIONS: "Fathers and Sons" was published by Abbeville Press, in

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes a special guest this week, and repeats the 2-week challenge for everyone at home.

about President Clinton as he prepares to begin his second term... and Speaker Gingrich as he prepares to face a House vote on the recommended punishments for his ethics violations.

to a second term as President of the United States. Yesterday's celebration was more subdued than the one four years ago. The President appealed to Congressional leaders to set aside 'extreme partisanship,' and tackle the nation's most urgent problems.

at President Clinton's first term, and previews his next four years.

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President Clinton asked Arkansas poet Miller Williams to write a poem for the Second Inaugural. The poem is titled "On History and Hope."

The federal government's reports on the state of housing in the US have been sharply divided between the record number of Americans who own homes... and the fast-increasing number who live in so-called "worst case housing." Those are the people who are stuck in squalid conditions, or whose housing costs such a large part of their income that one more rent increase will leave them on the streets. NPR's John Nielsen explores the crisis facing the working poor and government policy makers.

about some of the year's most noticeable ad campaigns, good and bad.

It seems certain that New York City will have less than one thousand homicides...for the first time since 1968. Crime overall is down throughout the city...Melissa Block reports on what this drop in crime means, and how the city's police force brought about the changes.

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing to withdraw from the market a widely used antihistamine called Seldane. It says that the very rare occurence of potentially fatal heart disease outweighs the drug's benefits. A new variant of the drug was just approved by the FDA four months ago, and the agency is advising patients to ask their doctors whether to switch antihistamines. NPR's Vicky Que (KWAY) reports.