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In the second part of a conversation, host Bob Edwards talks to actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. The couple discuss the price they've paid for their political activism and how they've been able to reconcile their personal and professional lives during 52 years of marriage. They also talk about the 1959 Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun, and their appearances in Spike Lee's movies Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever. Davis and Dee say they'll be honored Sunday night to receive the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on President Bush's visit to Fargo, North Dakota. Mr. Bush is on the road this week, selling his tax-cut plan to citizens.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that one of the new Bush administration priorities is the deployment of a controvertial national missile defence system. The exact nature of the missile defence system is subject to a strategic defence review which will be concluded this spring.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Congressman Charlie Stenholm, who represents the 17th district of Texas, about tax cuts. Stenholm says tax cuts can work in tandem with national debt reduction, improved public education and a secure social security for the future.

Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer read selections from this week's letters from listeners.

The House of Representatives approved today the main portion of President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut. Republican leaders were exultant about passing the president's prize proposal in record time. The vote followed party lines, despite weeks of courtship by the White House. And the bill faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where a bipartisan group of centrists is insisting on modifications. NPR's David Welna reports.

Commentator Merrill Matthews wonders why so many people think George Bush's agenda is "conservative." According to his dictionary, a conservative is one who resists change, but Bush and the Republicans are the ones calling for change and reform these days, not the Democrats and not the "liberals." From tax policy to education to the military, Bush and the Republicans are behaving like liberals and the Democrats with their resistance to change are acting more conservative.

Pensacola, Fla., native Jim White has put out his second CD. It's an odd mix of what White calls hick-hop. You'll hear spooky southern imagery mixed with electronic beats. Meredith Ochs reviews this CD, that is filled with great stories and instrumentation. The CD is called No Such Place, by Jim White on the Luaka Bop label.

Debbie Elliott reports that former smoker Grady Carter of Jacksonville has become the first person to actually collect money from the tobacco industry after beating a tobacco company in court over a smoking-related illness. Carter was awarded $750,000 by a jury in 1995. He received more than $1 million from Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. on Thursday as payment and interest.

Subway is very serious about its low-fat, healthy fast food ad campaign. So serious that the fast food chain and one of its franchises are suing a Michigan landlord for allowing a vegetarian health food bar to open next to a Subway sandwich shop. Subway says the nearby presence of a shop that sells things like carrot juice amounts to illegal competition. The health food bar says its customers and Subway's are very different. Quinn Klinefelter of WDET reports.