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Noah talks to author David Shields about women who wear glasses and the erotic appeal such women hold for Shields. Shields reads passages from his book "Remote" on this subject. He says glasses say to him that the woman is so beautiful, so perfect that she can risk covering up that beauty. He also fantasizes about the moment a when a woman with glasses removes them before going to bed; a moment the stranger can only imagine.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says what you wear could really tell the world who you are and what you think. He wonders if the juror at the Whitewater trial who dressed in a Star Trek uniform everyday might have been offering a social commentary by suggesting we all should should dress differently.

Today is the Ides of March. To mark it, we read from Shakespeare's tragedy, "Julius Ceasar," in which Brutus eulogizes the man he helped murder.

Linda speaks with Oliver "Buck" Revell, a former deputy director of the FBI, about how the Islamic extremist organization Hamas raises funds in the United States. Revell, now a private security consultant, says Hamas, using numerous front organizations, have been highly successful in raising funds in the United States and that some of money reaches the organization's military wing.

Netday '96 gets underway in California tomorrow. Netday is an ambitious, volunteer effort to get the state's schools wired for internet access. President Clinton, who called the event a "high-tech barn-raising," plans to be on hand as a local high school is wired.

Commentator Mickey Edwards has been teaching a course this year about how to conduct a political campaign. He isn't sure that Bob Dole would do so well in the course and therefore offers him a few tips.

Commentator Stuart Chifet [shih-FAY] says Cyberspace allows everyone to be an active receipient of information, unlike previous media, like television or radio. We can move forward in cyberspace at the pace we determine.

Linda conducts our weekly political roundtable chat. This week, the topic is Bob Dole and defining the GOP vision. Linda is joined by NPR's political correspondent Elizabeth Arnold, who's been out on the campaign trail with Dole, and Mark Nuttle, a Republican political consultant in Norman, Oklahoma. Nuttle ran Pat Robertson presidential campaign in 1988. He also has advised Ronald Reagan, George Bush and most recently, Steve Forbes.