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The music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra may be the finest American conductor since Leonard Bernstein. After conducting the Metropolitan Opera for 34 years, James Levine took over the BSO from Seiji Ozawa last year.

Katy Payne's observations from the elephant bai research project.

Last night at the Democratic Convention, the Broadway cast of "Rent" performed the song "Seasons of Love." We'll hear some of that performance.

Commentator Lee Cullum knows that politics and money go together...but even so, it's time to try and clean up campaign finance laws. She argues for the elimination of Political Action Committee money, and also advocates shortening the campaign season.

Authorities in Indonesia now say at least 26 people died in three separate suicide bombings at restaurants on the resort island of Bali. More than 120 people were injured. The attacks are being blamed on the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah.

On the day before the Presidential election, senior news analyst Daniel Schorr sums up some of the lessons learned from this campaign season.

Marine Cpl. Joshua Snyder of Maryland died under enemy fire in Iraq. He was a good friend and high school teammate of Lance Cpl. Norman Anderson, a fallen Marine profiled by NPR last month. Friends and family are mourning the losses in Parkton, the men's hometown.

Weekend Edition sports commentator Ron Rapoport salutes the New York Yankees, who bring their tradition of winning into the current baseball season.

Thanks to interleague play, the formerly cursed Boston Red Sox and the perhaps-still-cursed Chicago Cubs are meeting on the field for the first time in 90 years. Melissa Block talks with George Lucas, owner of the famed Cubby Bear sports bar in Chicago. He was at Wrigley Field on Friday for the first game in the series.

Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport talks about baseball's pennant races. Next week is the last week of the regular baseball season.