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NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that often, serious debate on Capitol Hill doesn't get a whole lot of news coverage, for it is the partisan stuff that really attracts the journalists. But that doesn't mean that members of Congress don't put aside politics and really dig into an issue in a serious manner. Kenyon found one such example this week in the House Judiciary Committee, which debates issues of refugees and political asylum.

BETH FERTIG REPORTS ON NEW YORK CITY'S NEW CHANCELLOR WHO WILL LEAD THE NATION'S LARGEST SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Daniel talks with Adam Raphael, author of 'Ultimate Risk', about the financial crisis the British insurance company Lloyd's of London is currently facing. Raphael says Lloyds, known for 300 years as a reliable and respected feature of British establishment, is now caught in a scandal of corruption and fraud that will cost investors millions. And will have ramifications for insurance companies in the United States as well. The book's publisher is Four Walls, Eight Windows in New York.

NPR's Melissa Blocks leads us through the pages of a new book...an encyclopedia of New York City. The book is huge...it weighs more than seven pounds. It took 13 years to put together at a cost of one million dollars.

Correspondent for The New York Times, CHRIS HEDGES. He's been reporting from Bosnia and Croatia. He talks about the expected signing of the Bosnian Peace Agreement, and the arrival of NATO troops.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Heat" starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino.

THE NEW "WOMEN IN MUSIC HALL OF FAME" INDUCTS ITS FIRST HONOREE TODAY IN NASHVILLE. SHE IS THE LATE MIRA SMITH, WHO FOUNDED AND OPERATED RAM RECORDS IN THE 50'S AND 60'S IN SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA. HER FRIEND AND SONGWRITING PARTNER MARGARET LEWIS IS ACCEPTING THE HONOR. ALEX CHADWICK ASKS MARGARET LEWIS ABOUT HER FRIEND, MIRA SMITH.

Trevor Rowe reports from the United Nations that as leaders of the world gather for the 50th anniversary meeting of the General Assembly, nations are questioning whether the UN's peacekeeping operations are on track...or outmoded.

3: Composer and jazz musician ORNETTE COLEMAN and his son, producer DENARDO COLEMAN. They've just collaborated on a new album, "Ornette Coleman & Prime Time: Tone Dialing." It's on a new label that Coleman has founded: Harmolodic (a division of Verve Records). In 1959 COLEMAN he started the era of "free jazz." Since then COLEMAN has been one of jazz's most innovative and controversial composers. In 1994 COLEMAN was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship Award.

NPR's John Nielsen has the latest on efforts between the White House and Congress to end their budget impasse and end the partial government shutdown.