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Linguist GEOFFREY NUNBERG considers whether the internet is on the way to making english the official language of the worl.d

Neal with some thoughts about modern courtesy.

Robert Siegel speaks with Michael Hudson, professor of International Relations & Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studiesat Georgetown University and Alan Makovsky, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy about the role Syrian President Assad is now playing in the middle east. Stereo (6:30) (IN S

Retired pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian is on trial again. He is charged with assisting in the suicides of two of his patients. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that this trial raises the question of whether people who are not terminally ill have the right to a doctor's help in killing themselves.

In this presdiential election year, there has been a debate as to whether television networks should give the major candidates free television time. Commentator Mickey Edwards believes that it's not only the presidential candidates who need free t.v. time but more importantly the people who are running for Congress who need free t.v. time for debates. Edwards says that if we are to hope for more changes in government, the cost of running for office needs to be pared down.

Guest film critic LISA SCHWARZBAUM reviews "The Truth About Cats & Dogs."

Neal reads some listeners' comments.

Tueday, the Senate passed a bill that would require insurance companies to consider mental illness the same as physical illness. Linda Wertheimer speaks with Dr. Herbert Pardes (PAR des), chair of the department of Psychiatry, at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Some see the Senate's move as possible end to the stigmatization of mental illness.

Neal speaks with Norma Arata (UH-rah-TUH), who makes and sells the authentic Kennedy rocker. Mrs. Arata's late husband, Larry, made 12 rocking chairs for President Kennedy designed to ease his back pains. Two of the rockers sold at a Sotheby's auction this week in New York. (5:00) (The Authentic Kennedy Rocker is available through Norma Arata in McLean, Virginia 703-536

NPR's Deidre Berger reports on today's decision by Germany's highest court upholding the tighter asylum laws of 1993 that were introduced to stem the flow of asylum seekers into Germany.