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Comedian-Actor, MARTIN MULL. He became known for his performance as the anchor man on "Weekend Update," the news parody on "Saturday Night Live," and as talk show host for late night show "Fernwood Tonight." MULL recently released his book Paintings, Drawings and Words (Journey Editions). It provides not only a generous survey of his enigmatic art works, but the process by which he creates them. MULL is presently a regular on the TV sitcom "Roseanne.

Language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG takes the "Cosmopolitan" grammar quiz.

FROM PARIS, WHERE THE FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS TO BE HELD SUNDAY, NPR'S ANDY BOWERS REPORTS THAT LIKE AMERICANS, THE FRENCH PICK THEIR LEADERS BASED ON WHAT THEY LEARN ABOUT THEM IN NEWSPAPERS AND ON TELEVISION. BUT WHAT THE FRENCH SEE IN THE MEDIA IS NOT AT ALL LIKE WHAT WE SEE IN AMERICAN ELECTIONS.

Daniel Zwerdling talks to Detective Rick Sexton, the composite sketch artist for Fairfax county police about how he goes about sketching a suspect based on witness accounts. Sexton says he very often waits to interview people for a sketch until they're more calm and relaxed, even if that means they forget a few details about a suspects appearance.

A deadly storm hit the northern part of Texas late Friday night killing at least 9 people and injuring over 100. With winds topping 70 mph, power was knocked out at Dallas-Fort Worth Internatinal Airport causing flight delays and flood waters poured into Baylor University Medical Centre contaminating emergency equitpment. Member station KERA's Bill Zeeble reports.

A year after South Africa elected its first post-apartheid Government NPR's Anne Cooper visits a school just outside Johannesburg to see how the education system is faring. She finds a thriving makeshift school, created not by Government but by the drive and determination of the school principle.

Writer ISABEL ALLENDE (I-en-day) has published her first work of non-fiction, Paula (Harper Collins) The book was inspired when her 28 year old daughter fell into an irreversible coma. Paula began as a letter to her dying daughter and turned into an autobiographical work telling of life from ALLENDE's childhood in Chile to her exile in Venezuela and her move to San Francisco. Publisher's Weekly says, "Only a writer of Allende's passion and skill could share her tragedy with her readers and leave them exhilarated and grateful." Two of Allende's previous works of fiction, The House of Spirits and Of Love and Shadows, have been made into motion pictures

Producer/ Director TERRY ZWIGOFF. ZWIGOFF recently released a new documentary, "CRUMB." The film was shot over seven years and follows the life of Robert Crumb, the famous underground artist who popularized character's such as Mr. Natural, Flakey Foont and Keep on Truckin'. The film won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary and cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival. ZWIGOFF'S last documentary was "Louie Bluie.

Fresh Air rock critic MILO MILES looks back on the Treniers and rock and roll before Elvis.

Daniel talks with Rasheed Khalidi, professor of Middle East History at the University of Chicago and Janet Dates, Dean of Communications at Howard University in Washington D.C. They'll discuss how certain ethnic groups tend to be either credited or blamed for certain events and how the media helps perpetuate stereotypes.

MAGGIE KUHN: Maggie Kuhn, founder of the Gray Panthers, died esterday at the age of 89. The organization was founded 25 years ago by Kuhn nd four other women, all of whom were over age 60, to battle many social njustices, including age-discrimination. Liane Hansen prepared a remembrance f this determined woman.

Everyday life is slowly returning to normal for the residents f Oklahoma City ten days after the bombing of the federal building. NPR's Wade oodwyn attended a local college baseball game and spoke with a few citizens bout the gradual transition from chaos to relative stability over this past eek.