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Commentator Steven Waldman says that this is a season of remarkable religious unity in the U.S. In the next few weeks Americans will celebrate: Hanukkah, Christmas, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice and Rohatsu, an important Buddhist holiday. Religious variety has flourished without it being seen as a horrible threat to any particular religion. Americans have gotten pretty good at figuring out how to be different without being divisive.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr, having read a new report from the CIA, wonders if the foreign policies of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice will be applicable to the world they might face.

The New York City schools are poised to become the next big battleground over bilingual education. Schools Chancellor Harold Levy is scheduled to propose at a hearing tomorrow limits on the amount of time students can spend in bilingual programs. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

In Florida today twenty-five electoral votes were cast by twenty-five people pledged to George W. Bush. Florida's electors met at the state Senate chamber in Tallahassee... with the president-elect's brother presiding:

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Bujanovac, in southern Serbia, where ethnic Albanian militants have been waging an insurgency. Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica is demanding that the United Nations and NATO peacekeepers stop the insurgents from crossing from Kosovo into the buffer zone along the border with Serbia proper. At the same time, Kostunica has taken steps to improve relations with the majority ethnic Albanian population in the Presevo Valley. The U.N. Security Council meets tomorrow to discuss the issue.

Robert talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden who's in Jerusalem about election politics in Israel, and the prospects of a return to power by former right-wing prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Jerusalem on the latest preparations for a new round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington.

Host Lisa Simeone talks to postmaster June Wagner of Bethlehem , Maryland about the heavy influx of mail during the holiday season because of the town's name.

Howie Movshovitz of Colorado Public Radio has this profile of filmmaker Ang Lee. Lee, a native of Taiwan, has earned a reputation for finding the essence of human experience in his subjects, no matter what their origin. Unlike his period pieces in previous films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is a Hong Kong action picture.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on President-elect George W. Bush's transition to the White House. Over the weekend, he selected Condoleezza Rice as National Security Advisor and Colin Powell as Secretary of State. While his initial appointments may be well-received, questions of bi-partisanship in Washington remain.