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In our ongoing series of stump speeches delivered by the Presidential candidates, we hear an excerpt from an address by Alan Keyes.

Open Tennis Tournament, which concluded over the weekend. Boris Becker won the Men's competition, and Monica Seles the Women's. It was Becker's first win in a Grand Slam event since 1991, and Seles' first since she was stabbed three years ago.

(host copy) Poet Joseph Brodsky died today. The Russian exile, who lived in New York, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. He went on to become the U.S. Poet Laureate. We'll hear Brodsky read his poem, "Bosnia Tune."

Excerpts from today's funeral at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, in Paris.

Robert Siegel speaks with Stanley Hoffman, a professor of the civilization of France at Harvard University, about the late Francois Mitterrand. Mr. Hoffman discusses Mitterrand's efforts toward European integration and his gradual move from the right to the left.

Robert talks with Nicholas Scoppetta, who has served as a New York State prosecutor, deputy mayor, and commissioner for Investigations under two New York City mayors. He has been appointed by mayor Rudolph Giuliani to lead a new agency overseeing child welfare.

Today's budget talks have been suspended. Robert Siegel speaks with NPR's Mara Liasson from the White House and Peter Kenyon from Capitol Hill about the why the negotiaitions broke down. Budget negotiators gathered again at the White House today, amid reports from both sides that the talks are on the verge of ending, either with a balanced budget agreement or a failure. Republicans had been hinting that, if they can't reach a settlement with President Clinton, they will bypass him and cut a deal with congressional Democrats to cut spending and taxes.

Daniel remembers the Challenger explosion, which took place ten years ago today. He speaks with Karen Colby, a former student of astronaut Christa McAuliffe who is now a teacher in New Hampshire; and with Gene Kranz, who was at mission control for NASA when the explosion took place.

a writer for Popular Photography magazine, about a new photo system being developed jointly by Kodak, Canon, Minolta, Nikon, and Fuji. The Advanced Photo System, or APS, will provide a more foolproof means of taking good pictures. It includes a new type of film, packed in a light-proof cartridge, a smaller camera, and other high-tech features not available currently on even the most expensive 35-mm cameras. Photo labs will have to buy costly electronic processing equipment that can read information encoded on each roll of film.

impasse has been put behind us or not and what's next for Congress once it gets past the budget.