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on the second presidential debate held in San Diego last night.

Robert Carruthers about a football game that won't be played. Carruthers canceled the school's game with the University of Connecticut because several players were charged with assault and vandalism at a fraternity party.

are limiting the number of new homeowner policies they write in coastal communities because of recent hurricane-related losses.

On the first anniversary of the Million Man March, Minister Louis Farrakhan spoke before a large crowd of supporters in front of the United Nations building in New York. Farrakhan called the event the World Day of Atonement, and asked the United States and the United Nations to lift sanctions on Libya, Cuba and Iraq.

Commentator Jacob Weisberg wonders about the latest category of crucial swing voters- "soccer moms." He says this categorization of some women is as misleading as the "angry white male" voter from the 1994 election. If you define these women as suburban and professional, they do lean toward Clinton--but this year, it's the men that are actually more fickle and likely to make up the "swing vote."

NPR's Noah Adams talks to Chris Douridas-- who has a radio program Morning Becomes Electric on our member station KCRW in Santa Monica. Douridas talks about how everyday he gets around 50 CDs and tapes from musicians who want to be on the radio. He listens to all of them and today introduces us to the gentle giant of Hawaiian song -- he weighs some 700 pounds, but plays the ukelele gently and beautifully with incredible precision. Douridas introduces us to this artist's rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

Congressional and White House budget negotiators are close to agreement on a plan to balance the budget by 2002. However, Democratic congressional leaders have raised concerns that proposed spending cuts are too deep and that proposed tax cuts are too great. The White House says President Clinton won't sign on until a majority of Democrats are on board. Negotiations were expected to go all day long. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

Essayist Tim Brookes ponders the difficulties of driving with a young child in the car.

the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago over Meigs Field, a small airport located along Lake Michigan. Under the compromise announced yesterday, the State will continue to operate the airport for five years, after which the City will be allowed to use the land for whatever purpose it wants.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that officials from the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum are working out details of a plan to bring about the most ambitious trade liberalization plan in history. But as they were meeting, there were noisy demonstrations against the plan on the streets of Manila. Opponents complain that freer trade will allow large multi-national corporations to exploit the region's poor and the environment.