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NPR's Jack Speer reports that the United State Olympic Committee has filed a lawsuit to stop Nabisco from promoting its Fig Newtons as a foodstuff for Olympians. Nabisco is not an official Olympic sponsor, and the USOC says its ad is unfair to the companies who've paid for the Olympic logo.

Host Steve Inskeep talks with author Adam Cohen about his book, American Pharaoh, a biography of former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley.

Host Steve Inskeep talks with James L.W.West III about Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby (Edited by James L.W. West III/Cambridge University Press/2000). West says that F.Scott Fitzgerald's Trimalchio was a good novel, but that The Great Gatsby was a masterpiece -- and that Fitzgerald and his editor, the famed Maxwell Perkins, achieved this in the re-writing. West is Distinguished Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.

NPR's David Molpus reports on the increasing number of minorities, immigrants, and women who are signing up with unions. This demographic change is causing labor to re-think its strategies, and to figure out new ways to appeal to workers in the changing economy.

NPR's Michelle Kelemen reports from Moscow on a shake-up at the famed Bolshoi Ballet. An agency of the United Nations is helping to renovate the troupe's theatre, but the government is hoping to speed up the work. Last week, the Bolshoi's artistic and general director was sacked and the troupe was put under control of the Ministry of Culture.

NPR's Peter Overby takes a look at vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman's Senate financial support from insurance and drug companies.

Host Steve Inskeep talks to columnist Doug Grow of the Minneapolis Star Tribune about a dispute over kosher dill pickles at the Minnesota State Fair.

Aileen LeBlanc of member station WYSO profiles deejay Moon Mullins. Mullins broadcasts on a small AM radio station in Ohio and insists on doing commercials the old fashioned way- live and with local businesses. His style is a throw-back to the early days of radio where stations were as diverse as the communities they served.

Linda reports on one of the big publishing events of the fall: the release of The Mark - the eighth novel in the Left Behind series, published by Tyndale press. It's a huge crossover success which began selling in Christian bookstores but can be found in airport bookstores and on the New York Times bestseller list. The story is the Biblical prophecy of the End Times, set in the near future.

Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush proposed today that low-income seniors receive prescription drugs for free. Bush also said that all seniors ought to have a choice of plans that would pay up at one fourth of their drug costs, either by government program or through private insurance. Steve Inskeep, traveling with the Bush campaign, filed this report for NPR News.