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Commentator David Crystal says poets aren't the only ones to invent new ways of describing the world.

Drummers...maybe hundreds...are filling the town of Santa Cruz, California, with rhythm...lots of rhythm...non-stop rhythm. The drummers are exorcizing the spirit of Robert Bly...they're energizing their bodies; freeing their spirits; celebrating the joy of being alive. They're also REALLY making the people of Santa Cruz mad. Tonight, the city council votes on an ordinance to ban drumming between the hours of 8PM and 10AM. The drummers are bummed. Kathy MacAnally reports.

things are looking good for a second term for President Clinton. And -- if this election plays out like the others since World War Two, look for Clinton to win by an even larger margin than 1992.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that somehow, the U.S. must find a way deal with Iran when negotiating peace in the current Israel-Lebanon crisis.

on a victory for the federal government in the continuing battle with western states over control of federal land.

NPR's Melissa Block takes note of a trend among politicians to quote the words of William Butler Yeats. Irish-American politicians tend to quote him most frequently. There are complaints that taking Yeats' lines out of context distorts their meaning and that over-using Yeats can devalue the poet's work, reducing his lines to political cliches.

signed by China and Russia on nuclear weapons, space exploration and trade during Russian President Boris Yeltsin's 3-day trip to China.

on the $35 million campaign the AFL-CIO is planning this year to defeat 75 House members -- almost all of whom are Republicans. Labor hopes to reassert itself as the important voting block it once was. But many union members voted Republican in the last election and getting them to follow the union leadership's guidance on election day is a formidable task.

NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports on what's at stake in the up-coming Indian elections that begin Saturday. Voters, which could number almost 6-hundred million, are turning out to cast ballots for one-third of the seats of Parliament. Voters of all classes and castes are said to be disgusted with the government's corruption and question the benefits of democracy.

whether English should be made the official language of the United States. Tonight, we conclude our series with a commentary form Ruben Martinez, who is living in Mexico City, for a perspective from the other side of the border.