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2: Interview with William Maxwell continued.

ABC News political and media analyst JEFF GREENFIELD. He appears regularly on Nightline and World News Tonight. He also has a weekly column on World News Sunday. He's just written his first novel about presidential politics and the electoral college, The People's Choice: A Cautionary Tale, (G.P. Putnam).

Psychologist KAY REDFIELD JAMISON is an authority on manic-depression, and the author of the 1993 book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, (Free Press/MacMillan). Recently JAMISON disclosed her own 30-year battle with manic-depression in the new memoir, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Knopf). JAMISON is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Jazz Critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews a cd featuring Carl Stalling''s cartoon music. From 1936 to 1958 Stalling composed music for Warner Brother''s cartoons including: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the Road Runner. The title is "The Carl Stalling Project, Vol. 2, Warner Bros." REV. : Film Critic Stephen Schiff reviews Spike Lee''s new film "Clockers." Then we heard an excerpt from a 1993 (?) interview with novelist Richard Price who wrote "Clockers."

SCOTT SIMON VISITS THE MARIO LANZA MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA. HE ALSO SPEAKS WITH A MAN WHO MAY OR MAY NOT BE THE SINGING SON OF THE GREAT TENOR.

SIMON/RAPPOPORT: WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT LOOKS BACK AT A WEEK OF BASEBALL PLAYOFF ACTION.

NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS FROM THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE ON THE CLEAN-UP EFFORT IN THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE OPAL.

IN CELEBRATION OF WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY, WE CONTINUE THE AIRING OF SOME OF OUR FAVORITE PIECES. THIS WEEK WE OFFER A STORY FROM 1990, WHICH PROFILED IDENTICAL TWIN SISTERS MARRIED TO IDENTICAL TWIN BROTHERS.

TOVIA SMITH REPORTS ON A SCHOOL IN BOSTON THAT MUST IMPROVISE THE WRITTEN FORM OF A LANGUAGE--CAPE VERDEAN-- THAT HAS NO REAL ALPHABET, BECAUSE OF STRINGENT BILINGUAL EDUCATION LAWS IN THE STATE.

SCOTT SIMON AND KEN BUNTING, MANAGING EDITOR OF THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, DISCUSS THE WEEK'S TOP NEWS STORIES