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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jason DeRose of Chicago Public Radio reports on the traditional passion play of Oberammergau, a Bavarian village south of Munich. The play's been criticized for years as being anti-Semitic. But this year, play producers have tried to change that.

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.