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Linda Wertheimer talks to Nicholas McGegan, music director of the Gottingen Festival in Germany. He will conduct Gloria in Excelsis Deo, a composition for soprano and strings by George Frideric Handel, which has been rediscovered in a London library. Handel scholars in England and in this country have examined the work and believe that it is an authentic Handel piece and probably one of his earlier works.

The captain of the Japanese fishing trawler that sank after a collision with a U.S. submarine took the stand today in the Navy's court of inquiry into the accident. What followed were the most moving and emotional hours yet in the dramatic proceeding. NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Noah Adams speaks with Thomas Mann, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution about another provision in the debate -- paycheck protection. Currently unions can use money raised from dues for political action. This provision would require unions to gain the permission of union members to use any portion of their dues for politics. Mann explains that while some want this provision to extend to corporations --that would be extremely difficult. He also explains how this requirement could extend to any organization, the Sierra Club or the Christian Coalition for example, that use dues for political activity.

NPR's Peter Overby picks up the story explaining the high stakes for politicians over this debate -- for senators its their careers, for interest groups its their clout, and for President Bush it is his image as someone who can change Washington. There is likely to be many amendments and many changes as campaign finance reform is debated over these two weeks.

NPR's Guy Raz reports that fighting abated today around the northwest Macedonian city of Tetovo. The Macedonian army had deployed tanks and sent in infantry to put down ethnic Albanian rebels in the hills above the city. NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson warned the rebels that the international community will not allow the break-up of Macedonia by violent insurrection.

With fighting continuing for a sixth day around the town of Tetovo in Macedonia, we examine how and why this fighting began. Linda Wertheimer talks with Steven Burg, professor of politics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., about the relations between Macedonia's government and the country's large ethnic Albanian minority, and about the rebels' demands.

Barbara Mantel reports from an Early Head Start Program in New York City where toddlers in "Baby School" get close attention to their development and diets. Their parents, often poor teens or immigrants, are welcomed into the classroom to learn parenting skills and good nutrition.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Peter Overby about campaign finance reform. The McCain-Feingold bill comes before the Senate this week, even as momentum is growing to alter or kill the measure. (3:55) Check out more coverage of Power, Money & Influence.

The founder of the Mamas and the Papas, John Phillips. He died of heart failure on Sunday. He was 65. Phillips was the principal songwriter for the pop group which had a string of hits from 1966 to 1968 when the group broke up. Their hits included Monday, Monday, California Dreamin, I Saw Her Again Last Night and others. (REBROADCAST from

In 2000, saxophonist Joe Lovano was voted Down Beat Readers and Critics Poll Winner Tenor Player of the Year. Early in his career, Lovano played with Woody Herman and the Mel Lewis Orchestra. He's also worked with Elvin Jones, Carla Bley, Lee Konitz and Charlie Haden. And he played with the Paul Motian Trio which featured his Berklee School of music classmate, Bill Frisell. In 1991 he began work as a leader, and has recorded a number of albums. His latest is Flights of Fancy: Trio Fascination, Edition Two.

Renee Montagne talks with bluesman R.L. Burnside about his new album Wish I Were in Heaven Sitting Down. She also speaks with Matthew Johnson, head of Fat Possum Records.

NPR's Susan Stamberg reports that Americans in the 1940s embraced French cooking, and gave rise to a distinctly American style of cuisine in the decades since. She speaks with author and chef Patrick Kuh, about his book, The Last Days of Haute Cuisine.