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Formula One Grand Prix auto racing is back in the United States for the first time in ten years. The race was held in Indianapolis Sunday and drew an enormous television audience worldwide. Jason Paur reports.

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 Sylvia Poggioli reports that twenty-four hours after the polls closed in Yugoslavia, the government has still not released even preliminary results of Sunday's presidential election. The opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica has claimed victory. But there is no sign that incumbent Slobodan Milosevic is ready to hand over power.

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.

William Wilcoxen of Minnesota Public Radio reports on the expected guilty plea today of Jan Ganglehoff, a former office manager for the University of Minnesota's men's basketball team. As part of an expected plea bargain, Ganglehoff will testify against former coach Clem Haskins, who she says knew about the cheating.

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.

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.

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."

Writer Daniel Asa Rose tells the story of a chance meeting late one night in a bar in on Nantucket. The man sitting next to him turned out to share his birthday, his birthplace and even the same maternity ward. Though they had spent lives traveling in completely different directions, they were once again breathing the same air, nearly five decades later.