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A new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government shows that a significant number of voters who say they will vote for Mr. Bush or Mr. Gore also say they might change their minds. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.

Peru's President Alberto Fujimori was sworn in for an unprecedented third term on Friday. Thousands of protesters clashed with police in riots that killed six people trapped in a burning bank. NPR's Madelit del Barco reports.

Linda has a series of interviews about tonight's scheduled shutdown of Napster -- the Web-based service that allows users to trade music recordings free of charge. A US District court judge ordered Napster to stop facilitating these trades tonight at midnight, saying the company was aiding copyright infringement. Linda talks to Ric Dube an analyst with Webnoize, which researches and reports on the new media entertainment industry. Then she chats with two university students. First, Jeff Meredith, who will be a senior at Indiana University in the fall, and has 1000 MP3 files on his computer, about 400 of which come from Napster. And finally, Sam Ross, a student at the University of Virginia who has thousands of mp3 files, downloaded courtesy of Napster.

Character actor JOHN C. REILLY. REILLY can currently be seen in the film –The Perfect Storm.— He's starred in all three of director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson's films. He played a small-time gambler In "Hard Eight," a porn star In "Boogie Nights," and a police officer In "Magnolia." –Magnolia— has just been released on video. REILLY has also worked with directors Brian DePalma ("Casualties of War") and Terrence Malik ("The Thin Red Line"). REILLY got his start in Chicago at the Goodman School of Drama and worked with the Steppenwolf theatre. ORIGINAL BROADCAST: 1/13/00 (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW). 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (1:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

Scott speaks with Kitty Harmon about a new book she has edited called, Up to No Good, the Rascally Things Boys Do, as Told by Perfectly Decent Grown Men.

Mid-summer is the busiest time of year for America's traveling circuses. These family-owned businesses play rural towns and county fairs across the country. Stiff competition from movies and television has forced circuses to be leaner and more efficient - but the allure of clowns and elephants and trapeze artists still draws a good crowd. Reporter Brian Mann spent the morning recently with a circus as they prepared for a show.

One hundred years ago this weekend, Italian-American Gaetano Bresci assasinated the King of Italy, Umerto I. Scott speaks with Robert Viscusi who is a professor of English at Brooklyn College and President of the Italian-American Writers Association about the event.

Scott talks to Chicago fire commissioner James T. Joyce about that fire deparment's decision to retire the fire pole.

JOHN C. REILLY CONTINUED.Guest film critic HENRY SHEEHAN reviews the new film –Girl on the Bridge.—12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next archive edition of fresh air, actor JOHN C. REILLY. Hes currently starring in –The Perfect Storm.— He also starred in –Magnolia,— which was just released on video. Join us for the next fresh air.

The World Toe Wrestling Championships, the Cone Museum, and the Blood Pudding Tossing Contest: these along with other British eccentricities are celebrated in the light-hearted book Eccentric Britain. Host Jacki Lyden speaks to author Benedict le Vay about the people that in some countries would be looked at as crackpots, but in Britain are respected and even revered. (Eccentric Britain: The Guide to Britain's Follies and Foibles;The Globe Pequot Press; 2000)