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If some of Barack Obama's fundraising techniques seem familiar, it may because they're so much like the ones public broadcasters have used for decades. Ben Calhoun of Chicago Public Radio reports.

Linda talks with Ben Ginsburg, National Council for Bush/Cheney 2000, who is in Tallahassee, Florida. Ginsburg talks about the Bush appeal of the Florida Supreme Court decision to the US Supreme Court, how things are likely to progress over the holiday weekend, and the separate issue of counting military absentee ballots.

A group led by Sony confirms that it has agreed to buy the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio for nearly $5 billion. The deal would include the studio's vast library of films. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Variety reporter Ben Fritz.

Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) debate President Bush's plan to overhaul Social Security. Both tend to be swing voters on major issues, and both say they would consider supporting the president's proposed changes, but with reservations.

The jazz trio headed by Sam Rivers has a new CD out, Violet Violets (Stunt label). Rivers' horn work is complemented by bassist Ben Street and Danish drummer Kresten Osgood.

Hes touring the country promoting his new film, The Bourne Identity, a thriller about a man with amnesia flushed out of the Mediterranean sea, riddled with bullet holes. Damon has been in many hit films, including The Talented Mr Ripley, Saving Private Ryan and Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with close friend Ben Affleck.

Ben Chaney is the brother of James Chaney, who was murdered more than 40 years ago in Philadelphia, Miss. James Chaney offers his reaction to Edgar Killen receiving the maximum sentence, after he was found guilty of manslaughter in the case, where two other civil rights workers were killed.

Two Senators want to create an intelligence command center inside the Pentagon to oversee all eight intelligence agencies. Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) have introduced the legislation, which would alter the intelligence reform law passed last December.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan gives us her picks for the best holiday books of 2004. Her choices range from literary thrillers to a new biography of Ben Franklin.

Renee Montagne talks to Ben Markus about the shooting in Aurora, Colo. At least 12 people are dead after a gunman opened fire at a movie theater in the Denver suburb.