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NPR's Howard Berkes reports on several paramillitary groups who may have had a connection with the bombing in Oklahoma City. He reports on their motivations and what kind of people join these groups as well as how they organize.

2: ROBERT J. LIFTON, expert psychologist on mass social trauma and psychological after affects from anger, rage and vulnerability. LIFTON directs the center on violence and Human Survival at the City University of New York John Jay College.

NPR's Jon Greenebrg brings us up to date on the progress in the investigation into the bombing in Oklahoma City earlier this week. The FBI continues a search for a second suspect known as John Doe #2 President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed the nation and the nation's children this morning to assuage their fears about the bombing.

When Harvard University accepted the application of 19 year old Gina Grant, the school believed it would be enrolling an exceptional student with an exceptional IQ. However, the university then learned through an anonymous source that Ms. Grant had a checkered past. And it was on the basis of this new piece of information that Harvard officials reversed their decision and decided to reject Gina Grant. But students, psychologists and lawyers say the university has no basis for its action. Jacki talks with the Boston Globes' Walter Robinson about the story of Gina Grant which first appeared in the Globe this past week.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on a proposal in New York City to create separate schools for children who've been caught bringing weapons to class. The schools would be modelled after the Wildcat Academy, an alternative school in New York for troubled students.

IN OKLAHOMA CITY, NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON OKLAHOMANS REACTION TO YESTERDAY'S ARREST OF THE FIRST SUSPECT IN THE BOMBING OF THE FEDERAL BUILDING.

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Language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG takes the "Cosmopolitan" grammar quiz.

FROM PARIS, WHERE THE FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS TO BE HELD SUNDAY, NPR'S ANDY BOWERS REPORTS THAT LIKE AMERICANS, THE FRENCH PICK THEIR LEADERS BASED ON WHAT THEY LEARN ABOUT THEM IN NEWSPAPERS AND ON TELEVISION. BUT WHAT THE FRENCH SEE IN THE MEDIA IS NOT AT ALL LIKE WHAT WE SEE IN AMERICAN ELECTIONS.

A deadly storm hit the northern part of Texas late Friday night killing at least 9 people and injuring over 100. With winds topping 70 mph, power was knocked out at Dallas-Fort Worth Internatinal Airport causing flight delays and flood waters poured into Baylor University Medical Centre contaminating emergency equitpment. Member station KERA's Bill Zeeble reports.