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A document circulating in Washington describes the U.S. government's vision of an Iraqi free market, with privatized industry, a modernized stock exchange and a new tax code. The responsibility for much of this transformation would go to American contractors. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Wall Street Journal reporter Neil King Jr.

His Broadway musicals include Bye, Bye Birdie, Annie, Applause, It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman, and Golden Boy, which originally opened on Broadway in 1964 and starred Sammy Davis Jr. The show will be revived later this month by City Center Encores in New York. Strouse also composed music for film and TV, including "Those Were the Days," the theme song for TV's All in the Family.

Inventor Robert Edison Fulton, Jr., died last Friday in Connecticut at the age of 95. One of his many inventions was the 1940s Airphibian, a combination of a plane and a car, which he flew and drove for tens of thousands of miles. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Dorothy Cochrane, a curator at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.

requests for a jury trial of James Earl Ray in the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. The judge decided that new technology could determine whether Ray's rifle fired the shot that killed Doctor King.

James P. Hoffa Jr. is asking for a congressional investigation into the Teamsters election that he has apparently lost. At a news conference today, the son of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa challenged a discrepancy between an estimate of ballots returned, and the number of votes actually counted. The U.S. Postal Service reported that it had received thousands of ballots more than were counted. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Powerball officials presenting a $314.9 million check to lottery winner Andrew "Jack" Whittaker Jr.; Clonaid CEO Brigitte Boisellier; freelance journalist Michael Guillen; Sen. George Allen (R-VA); Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN); and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Liane Hansen speaks with Frank W. Abagnale, Jr., author of Catch Me If You Can (published by Broadway Books). The ex-con man masqueraded as everything from airline pilot to doctor to lawyer to sociology professor. Today he's on the other side of the law, working as a security consultant.

Capella Tucker reports from Houston, Tx., on the funeral of 20-year-old U.S. Army Cpl. Tomas Sotelo, Jr., who died June 27 in Baghdad when a rocket-propelled granade hit his vehicle.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new memoir The Tender Bar by Los Angeles Times reporter J.R. Moehringer. It tells the tale of his dysfunctional family on Long Island — and the community's center, the local bar.

William Rollins Jr., field services director for Paralyzed Veterans of America, approves of some of the presidential committee's report on veterans' care — such as improving support for families — but says other reforms are missing.