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NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on yet another issue in the debate over the Presidential Debates. After both the Gore and Bush campaigns agreed on their debate formats, third party candidates are feeling excluded. For them to participate, third party candidates must meet what they call a ridiculous criterion set up by the bi-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates. That criterion states that a candidate must win an average of at least 15-percent in national polls to be invited to the debates.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about this week's political events including the new strategy in the presidential campaign of Texas Governor George W. Bush.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports that officials from the Los Angeles have been negotiating with the federal officials in an effort to help the police department be more open and accountable. In recent months, the Justice Department threatened a civil rights suit if the city did not agree to reforms.

NPR's Margot Adler reports that some psychologists are also starting to worry about the degree to which children are exposed to violence in tv ads for movies. They staged a protest last week outside of an advertising industry's awards ceremony. But the industry says many of their awards go towards public service announcements that encourage children not to engage in destructive behaviors such as smoking.

A few years ago radio producer Dave Isay spent a lot of time hanging out in a couple of flophouses in New York City's bowery district. The result of his time there was an award winning documentary called The Sunshine Hotel. Now photographer Harvey Wang's images of those from the documentary are in a new book called Flophouse and are also on exhibit in a Manhattan gallery. Host Jacki Lyden and Producer Tracy Wahl hooked up with Isay and Wang to search out some of the subjects of that book. They wanted to find out if being part of a documentary and now the subject of a book has had any effect on their lives.

Jeff Lunden reports that the movie The Sound of Music is making a comeback in theaters in London and New York.

Melinda speaks with Cathy Crimmins about life with her husband, Alan Forman, following his traumatic brain injury. She writes about his recovery, and about how this trauma changed their relationship in her new book, Where is the Mango Princess?

Melinda talks with Jim Lehrer about his new documentary Debating Our Destiny: 40 Years of Presidential Debates. Mr. Lehrer is the executive editor and anchor of the The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. His documentary airs on PBS Sunday night.

Melinda with some thoughts on Court TV's decision to pull Confessions from its lineup.

The State Department has pulled the security clearance for the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Martyn Indyk. Host Jacki Lyden talks with NPR Diplomatic Correspondent Ted Clark about the details and what this might mean for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.