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FROM LONDON, NPR'S ANDY BOWERS REPORTS THAT LAST NIGHT'S RULING BY THE U.S. SUPREME COURT THAT STAYED THE SCHEDULED EXECUTION OF CONVICTED MURDERER AND RAPIST CLARENCE LACKEY IS SUPPORTED BY THE BRITISH BAR WHICH, THIS WEEK, FILED A FRIEND OF THE COURT BRIEF ON HIS BEHALF.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Priest," the new movie that has been condemned by many in the religious community.

MICHAEL JORDAN MAY BE COMING BACK TO PLAY BASKETBALL! SCOTT SIMON HAS SOME THOUGHTS.

Jyll Johnstone and Barbara Ettinger have explored the way they each were raised by nanny's in the 1950's in a new documentary called "Martha and Ethyl." Johnstone's nanny was a rigid disciplinarian, Ettinger had the opposite with a woman named Ethyl who she now look upon as a second mother.

Jacki Lyden talks to Geraldine Brooks, former Wall Street Journal corresspondant who has written a book on women and Islam. The book, "Nine parts of Desire" details some of Brooks more unusual experiences in the Middle East including a visit with the late Ayatollah Khomeni's family. Brooks says that there are many advantages in being a woman in that part of the world. The book is published by Doubleday.

NPR's Melissa Block reports survivors of the Long Islan Railroad shooting in New York made courtroom statements this past week in th trial of Colin Ferguson. He was convicted of killing 6 people during a shooting rampage on the railroad. Crime victims and their relatives are making their case in court more and more often.

We present the best and worst of the responses to last week's request for spring cleaning music - music while you clean!

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Polish Officer,"(Random House) a new espionage novel from Alan Furst.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the current ituation in Croatia. The Muslim/Croat Federation, brokered by the United tates, is one year old, but some strains are beginning to show. The Federation as started because of fears that a new war in Croatia would spread south into osnia. As the situation worsens once again in Bosnia, it looks like the ighting might spread north into Croatia.

NPR'S EDWARD LIFSON VISITS COOK COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL IN CHICAGO TO EXAMINE THE DIFFICULTIES BEING FACED BY MOST URBAN HOSPITALS RESULTING FROM THE LACK OF TRANSLATORS TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DOCTOR AND PATIENT, WHICH ULTIMATELY RESULTS IN IMPAIRED TREAMENT. A NEW SURVEY BY THE NON-PROFIT NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH AND HOSPITAL INSTITUTE IN WASHINGTON, D.C., WHICH ADDRESSES THIS ISSUE, WAS RECENTLY RELEASED.

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT MIKE TYSON'S RELEASE THIS MORNING FROM AN INDIANA PRISON AFTER SERVING THREE YEARS FOR RAPE, AND HOW IT WILL AFFECT THE WORLD OF BOXING.

Liane Hansen speaks with Edward Bangs of the U.S. Fish and ildlife Service about a program designed to restore gray wolves to America's ocky Mountains. In January, wolves were released in Idaho. This past week they ere released in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.