Newsmaker: Cohen and Clark
Jim Lehrer interviews Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Vern Clark about yesterday's attack on the U.S.S. Cole.

Political Wrap
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Wall Street Journal columnist Paul Gigot discuss the presidential debate and the week in politics.

Nobel Prize for Peace
Elizabeth Farnsworth and Selig Harrison, former northeast Asia bureau chief for The Washington Post, discuss Nobel Peace Prize winner Kim Dae Jung, president of South Korea.

The Great White Hope
Ray Suarez reports on a new staging of Howard Sackler's play "The Great White Hope."

U.S.S. Cole Attacked
Gwen Ifill discusses the attack on the U.S. Navy destroyer with Larry Johnson, former deputy director of the State Department's office of counter-terrorism; George Wilson, defense columnist for the National Journal; and Juliette Kayyem, of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Middle East Meltdown
Margaret Warner discusses the escalating violence in the Middle East with Tova Herzl, minister for congressional affairs at the Israeli embassy, and Hasan Abdel Rahman, the chief Palestinian representative to Washington.

Presidential Debate
After excerpts of last night's debate, Ray Suarez discusses the candidates' positions on foreign policy with Jim Hoagland of The Washington Post, Trudy Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Fareer Zakaria of Foreign Affairs.

Debate Preview
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Wall Street Journal columnist Paul Gigot preview of tonight's presidential debate.

Supreme Court Watch
Jan Crawford Greenburg, national legal affairs correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, examines a lawsuit against the state of Alabama under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Thawing Relations
Margaret Warner discusses relations between the U.S. and North Korea with James Lilley, ambassador to South Korea during the Reagan administration; Tony Namkung, an adviser to companies doing business in North Korea; and Don Oberdorfer, author of The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History.

Chicago Reaction
Serbian Americans in Chicago talk with correspondent Elizabeth Brackett about their reaction to the revolution in Yugoslavia.

Favorite Poem
A reading of a poem by Stanley Kunitz, who tomorrow officially becomes America's new poet laureate.

Fragile Democracy
Ray Suarez discusses the transition in Yugoslavia with Ivo Daalder, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Alex Dragnich, professor emeritus of history at Vanderbilt University.

Congressional End Game
Kwame Holman reports on what Congress is accomplishing as members prepare to wrap up the session.

Notes From the Campaign Trail
Gwen Ifill assesses the state of the presidential campaign with David Broder of The Washington Post, Tom Oliphant of The Boston Globe, and David Brooks of The Weekly Standard.

Nobel Prize Winners
Margaret Warner talks to Nobel Prize winners Herbert Kroemer of the University of California, and Alan MacDiarmid of the University of Pennsylvania.

Turmoil in the Middle East
Geoffrey Kemp, former senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs at the National Security Council during the Reagan administration; Rashid Khalidi, professor of Middle East history and director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago; and Menachem Brinker, chair of Modern Hebrew Studies at the University of Chicago and a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, give their views on the conflict in the Middle East.

The Keystone State
NewsHour senior correspondent Gwen Ifill has a report on the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.

A Nobel Prize Winner
Paul Greengard, a neuroscientist who heads the laboratory of molecular and cellular neuroscience at Rockefeller University in New York and one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine, joins Dr. Steve Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to talk about his research and winning the Nobel Prize.

Double Victory
As part of The NewsHour’s series of conversations with authors of new books, Ronald T. Takaki speaks about his book on minorities in World War II.

A Favorite Poem
Another in a series of poems read by Americans.