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NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on the official opening of the IMF/World Bank summit Tuesday.

Host Mike Shuster talks to NPR's Cokie Roberts about the apparent tightening of the Presidential contest between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush. Polls indicate that Bush has pulled even with Gore, after trailing since the Democratic National Convention last month.

Andrea Bernstein of member station WNYC reports from New York City on the deal struck over the weekend between the campaigns of Senate candidates Hillary Clinton and Rick Lazio. They agreed not to accept any soft money or outside contributions between now and Election Day. Advocates of campaign finance reform hope candidates in other races will do likewise and that the deal will encourage Congress to pass reform legislation in the next session.

Reporter Alex van Oss remembers the days of his youth when he used to roam the hallways of the American History Museum, one of the museums that make up the Smithsonian Institution. The museum received a generous gift of $80 million this past week from California developer Kenneth E. Behring.

Peru's disgraced intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos has arrived in Panama, seeking political asylum after sparking a week-long crisis at home.

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.