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NPR's Peter Overby reports that House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt today responded to an ethics complaint filed against him. He denied that he filed false financial disclosure statements and spent campaign funds for his personal use. That ethics complaint was filed a week ago by Republican Jennifer Dunn of Washington.

Noah talks with NPR's Andy Bowers in Sarajevo. They discuss the arrest of Bosnian Serb officers and response by Serbs to quit dealing with the Muslim-led Bosnian government and to halt contact with the NATO peace mission, Also, Richard Holbrooke, U-S Assistant Secretary of Sate, is being sent to Sarajevo Sunday to help the sides start talking again.

Commentator David Bernstein says that as a young conservative, he doesn't see anyone in the GOP field of candidates he wants to vote for. He warns that if the republicans don't recruit a visonary leader, with some spunk, they are going to miss an opportunity to bring in a lot of young conservatives.

Stand up comic ELLEN DEGENERES, the star of the sitcom "Ellen." The show airs on Wednesday nights on ABC. Last year DEGENERES co-hosted the 1994 Emmy awards and received a People's Choice Award for Favorite Female in a New Television series. She now has a new book, My Point. . . And I Do Have One (Bantam News). She's now starring in "Mr. Wrong." (REBROADCAST from 9/

Commentator Reynolds Price compares the English tradition of filming great works of literature with Hollywood's neglect of America's great writers. The three new Austen movies filmed in England are just the latest example of a country taking pride in its literary heritage. America could do the same with works like Cather's "A lost Lady," or Robert Stone's "A flag for Sunrise."

about the opening of a new session of parliament.

between Congress and the White House. House Speaker Newt Gingrich says Republicans would raise the debt ceiling before a potential default on March 1st if the White House agreed to add deficit reduction measures and a small tax cut to the package.

NPR's John McChesney reports on the controversy surrounding the investigation and arrest of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick. The FBI described Mitnick as the nation's most wanted hacker, but others say Mitnick was never the threat the FBI and others made him out to be. Two books about Mitnick have just been published...and the authors take very difference views of the threat he represented.

Robert has the story of a costly error on the part of wireless communications company -- the difference between $18 million dollars and $180 million.

A concert with LOUDAN WAINWRIGHT III. he performs songs from his new album "Grown Man." by Virgin Records. This is his 15th album.Fresh Air's Rock Critic Ken Tucker conducts the interview.