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surprising strength just a few days from the Primary. Buchanan finished a close second in Iowa this week, an indication of his appeal with the voters. The Republican heirarchy, however, is uncomfortable with his positions.

Satire from Harry Shearer and an idea for helping to pay for a costly presidential bid.

Noah talks with Marc Ratner, president of the Association of Boxing Commissions, about boxer Tommy Morrison, who publicly announced he has the AIDS virus. Ratner says Morrison's career is essentially over, that it is illegal for him to fight in Nevada, and that he hopes other states will follow suit. Boxing, he says, is a bloodsport, unlike other sports, and that HIV-positive athletes have no place in the ring if there is a chance, no matter how small, of transmission of the virus to another boxer or a ringside observer.

Satirist Harry Shearer imagines what might have occurred when President Clinton consulted with humorist Garrison Keillor in preparation for the State of the Union address. Keillor supplies windy parable; Clinton's interest drops. He dumps Keillor in the Green Room with "standees" - people who might get up during speech and take a bow.

Noah speaks with Hirsh Goodman, editor-in-chief of the Israeli news magazine, The Jerusalem Report, about the political fallout of the bombings for Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Goodman says the bombings confirm the view that Israeli and Palestinians cannot live together in peace and that the peace process will have to lead to a divorce.

Noah visits the Midnight Shakespeare program at the Gilman Street Recreation Center in San Francisco. About twenty high schools students gather three evenings a week for acting classes taught by local professional actors affiliated with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. The teachers say that the students learn more than the classics; they leave the program with the ability to take another person's attitude or point of view.

DAN SCHORR ANALYZES THE RACE FOR THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN THE WAKE OF PAT BUCHANAN'S NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY WIN WITH REPUBLICAN POLLSTER AND STRATEGIST FRANK LUNTZ AND WITH RON FAUCHEUX (FO-shay), EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF 'CAMPAIGNS AND ELECTIONS' MAGAZINE.

WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL REVIEWS THE H-B-O MOVIE "THE LATE SHIFT."

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that in the wake of Sunday's suicide attacks in Israel, Israelis are demanding that the PLO crack down on Muslim extremists, and make the terrorist organization, Hamas, illegal.

a biologist who's been studying a band of gray wolves in Glacier National Park in Montana for the past 17 years. Boyd talks about the relationship between the wolves and the people who live nearby.