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Professor of Religion at Princeton University ELAINE PAGELS. She has written four books including The Gnostic Gospels (which won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award). PAGELS has a new book called The Origin of Satan (Random House).

Daniel talks to Aryan the head of the International Red Cross delegation in Tuzla. She describes the scene after the devastating mortar attack on Thursday. The shell fell in a square filled with young people enjoying a summer night, and she says that many of the young people in Tuzla are still in shock from the loss of friends.

NPR's Edward Lifson reports on block 37 in Chicago... an empty lot in the middle of the downtown area. The lot waws bulldozed in the 1980s real estate boom, but a planned development was never built. On Friday it was announced that Sears Roebuck is considering building on the site.

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

The crisis in Bosnia escalated today with Bosnian Serbs shelling a suburb of Sarajevo and refusing to release more than 250 United Nations peacekeepers still held hostage. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on President Clinton's efforts to defend his Bosnian policy against Republican attack.

Linguist GEOFFREY NUNBERG reviews talk radio.

Daniel talks with journalist Gersh Kuntzman who has investigated the origins of what is now an international gesture....the HIGH 5.

THE GENOCIDE CONTINUES IN BOSNIA, AND SCOTT SIMON QUESTIONS WHETHER WE CARE ENOUGH.

Actor BILL PULLMAN. He taught drama at the University of Montana, where he rose to department head at age 27. PULLMAN later made his acting debut in "Ruthless People." This year alone, he is featured in the films, "Casper," "While You Were Sleeping," and "The Last Seduction."