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Commentator Shane Hamman competes tomorrow in Sydney as a member of the U.S. men's Olympic weight lifting team. He says his road to power lifting began when he was a teenager, working for his dad's produce company.

NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports on a Milken Institute report that says minority entrepreneurs aren't getting enough investment capital. Though African-Americans and Hispanics make up about 23 percent of the country's population, they only own about nine percent of the businesses. Analysts say this could impact America's retiring generation of workers, who're dependent on the wages and profits of younger generations.

Commentator Ev Ehrlich says the sagging Euro is a symptom of a bigger problem with Europe: it's still not an attractive place to invest. He says, rather than embrace the new economy of quick information, European governments operate under restrictions that...while protecting old businesses...hobble the creation of new ones.

NPR's Tom Goldman talks with host Mike Shuster about the news from the Sidney Olympics that at least one American athlete has been involved in a doping cover-up.

For insight about how Serbs are reacting to the election, Robert talks to Bratislav Grubacic, an independent analyst whose VIP News Services publishes English-language newsletters in Belgrade. Grubacic says it's apparent to him that though few people expected Milosevic to lose the election, they now seem to accept that he's lost.

Tom Gjelten of NPR News reports that the United States and other western governments today put intense pressure on Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to admit defeat in yesterday's presidential election. The United States, Britain and Germany challenged Milosevic to accept his fate or face what one European leader called "devastating consequences."

NPR's Don Gonyea takes a look at Michigan as a crucial battleground state in this year's presidential elections. This piece begins a series on key states.

Novelist David Leavitt. His new book is Martin Bauman; or, A Sure Thing. (Houghton Mifflin) It is a look at the Manhattan publishing scene as viewed through the eyes of 19-year-old Martin Bauman. Leavitt's own first book, Family Dancing, was published when he was just 23. Leavitt's other books include The Lost Language of Cranes, Equal Affections, and While England Sleeps.

Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai died Friday at the age of 76, and we feature a 1991 interview from the archives. Amichai was a celebrated poet whose subjects were love and loss, and more recently, aging and mortality. The New York Times wrote that he had a "gift for poeticizing the particular: the localized object or image in everyday life." (originally aired 2

NPR's Larry Abramson reports that Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein has announced he is leaving the U.S. Justice Department. As head of the department's anti-trust division, Klein has been the driving force behind the government's suit against the Microsoft Corporation. And as Abramson reports that high-profile suit is just part of an overall effort to revive anti-trust enforcement.