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BALSAM OBIT: IN MEMORY OF CHARACTER ACTOR MARTIN BALSAM, WHO DIED THIS WEEK, WE PLAY A SCENE FROM THE MOVIE THAT WON HIM HIS ONLY ACADEMY AWARD.

Singer-songwriter-poet-performance artist MAGGIE ESTEP. ESTEP calls herself "an angry, sweaty girl." As a teenager, she settled in New York City, and she's been in rock bands since the age of 17. She was the cover girl on the February 1994 issue of "High Times" magazine; the article inside called her "the leader of the spoken word pack." Her debut album was "No More Mr. Nice Girl." NUYO Records.

SCOTT TALKS WITH DR. AUSTIN CURTIS -- ONCE AN ASSISTANT TO DR. GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER.

SCOTT TALKS ABOUT EVENTS THIS WEEK IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome on the opening day of a meeting involving the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia and mediators from the NATO-led implementation force (IFOR) in Bosnia. The meeting was called to try to iron out difficulties in implementing the Dayton peace accord. Among the problems: the Bosnian Serbs cut off contacts with IFOR after two army officers, suspected of war crimes, were picked up by the Bosnian government and later flown to The Hague for investigation before the war crimes tribunal.

a political columnist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, about the primary in Georgia next week. Georgia is one of nine states holding primaries on Tuesday, and a key state in determining southern voter sentiment this election year.

V - Commentator Katherine Kersten says that although parents may closely supervise what their kids eat, seek out the best schools and monitor homework---they exercise little oversight and impose few standards when it comes to movies, TV and video games that fill kids' afterschool hours. Since entertainment is part of charachter building, that means beavis and butthead are the role models. she says children need to adopt heros and heroines worthy of admiration.

involving a man whose grown daughter suddenly remembered how her father killed her childhood playmate 20 years ago has. His 1990 conviction was overturned in 1994, and now this case of repressed memories is being retried.

falls in love with a horse-- and finds her suburban state of mind challenged by the experience.

economic developments that are frustrating working families, a crucial group of voters. NPR's White House correspondent Mara Liasson reports.