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Noah talks with Rosanne Cash, who has written a new collection of short fiction called "Bodies of Water". We visit her at her favorite restaurant in Greenwich Village, to talk about her writing life, inspiration, technique, and how being a singer/songwriter for more than twenty years has prepared her for the prose she is now writing. IN STEREO NOTE: "Bodies of Water" will be available in most bookstores by early next week (the week of 3/18/96). The publisher is Hyperion Books.

SCOTT REFLECTS ON THE CANDIDATES WHO HAVE DROPPED OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE SO FAR.

Film critic Bob Mondello uses the "Celluloid Closet", a new documentary about Hollywood's treatment of gays, as a prism to examine "It's My Party" and "The Birdcage".

The House is due to vote today on a bill overhauling immigration laws. One of its provisions would allow states to deny public schooling to children of illegal immigrants. In addition, the House may follow the Senate's lead by splitting the measure into two parts, separating rules dealing with legal immigrants. The separation could kill attempts to sharply limit the number of legal immigrants. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports. Updates are expected. Please be prepared to do new BBS if you use any of these details.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistad reports on tension between longtime Taiwanese residents and those who came from mainland some 50 years ago. Rising Taiwanese nationalism has become an issue in an election that will give an indication of whether Taiwan is heading toward independence. (8:15) -b- 7. SEA LION SHOOTING -- Jennie Schmidt of member station KPLU reports on the impending shooting of recidivist sea lions in Seattle. It's the same group that returns year after year to shipping locks in Puget Sound where steelhead trout swim upriver to spawn. There aren't many trout left, and wildlife biologists, having failed to dissuade the hungry sea lions, now want to shoot them.

Commentator Mickey Edwards wants to know when the terms -- liberals and progressives became synonomous? A clarification is need, because he says they have nothing to do with one another.

NPR's Mike Shuster talks with Russia's foremost human rights advocate, Sergei Kovalyov ((sair-gay koh-vahl-YOV)). Kovalyov recently resigned his position as chief human rights adviser to President Yeltsin. Kovalyov addresses the candidacy of the communists, the upcoming presidential election and how Yeltsin could end the war in Chechnya.

continuing military exercises off the coast of Taiwan.

has removed the Bronx Distract Attorney after he refused to give an explicit guarantee he would seek the death penalty for the killer of a policeman shot dead this week.