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SIMON/GUINIER: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH LANI GUINIER, CURRENTLY PROFESSOR OF LAW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, ABOUT HER NEWLY-RERELEASED BOOK, NOW IN PAPERBACK, THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY - FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS IN REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, PUBLISHED BY THE FREE PRESS, AND THEY TALK ABOUT CASES COMING BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT THAT COULD CHANGE THE FACE OF POLITICS.

SIMON/HEINZ 57: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH DONNA DOWLING, AN 8TH GRADE ENGLISH TEACHER AT THE NORTHWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL IN GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA. HER CLASS WROTE TO H.J. HEINZ COMPANY IN PITTSBURGH BRINGING TO THEIR ATTENTION INCORRECT GRAMMAR USED ON THEIR LABEL, AND THE COMPANY WROTE BACK..."AS A RESULT OF YOUR LETTERS, THE BACK LABEL OF HEINZ 57 SAUCE WILL BE REDESIGNED WITH NEW VERBIAGE."

50 YEARS AGO TODAY, ADOLPH HITLER MARRIED HIS LONG-TIME MISTRESS, EVA BRAUN.

SCOTT SIMON GOES TO A SUBURB OF SALT LAKE CITY TO VISIT WITH TENZIN DHONG (TEN-zin DONG-hah) AND HIS FAMILY. THE 6-YEAR-OLD CHILD IS BELIEVED TO BE THE REINCARNATION OF A HIGH TIBETIAN BUDDHIST LAMA...WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE HIS OWN GRANDFATHER.

Maker - NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on the case of Paul Kim, a high school senior in the Seattle suburbs who got into trouble because of a World Wide Web site he created on the Internet that made fun of his school. The site, which also included links to other Web sites that had sexually explicit material, was not connected to his school in any official way. Kim says that the principal of his high school stripped him of his chance to win a national merit scholarship because of the site.

Sifan Hassan is going for it: three gold medals in three races. She's already won gold in one of them — the women's 5,000-meter race.

"If we didn't lead this fight, nobody would," says a Beirut resident whose 3-year-old daughter was among the 217 killed in the blast. An official investigation has stalled. No one has been prosecuted.

She had been competing at the Tokyo Olympics. Timanovskaya is reuniting with her husband — who has also obtained a humanitarian visa.