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Noah talks with Mike O'Connor, who's in Tuzla reporting for the New York Times. War crimes investigators have discovered extensive tampering of evidence at a suspected mass grave site in eastern Bosnia. O'Connor says this site is particularly important because three witnesses claim that the Bosnian Serb military commander, General Ratko Mladic, was present while the mass executions took place. This discovery also calls into question the assurances by U.S. officials that suspected mass gravesites would remain intact for investigators. (4:00) Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 1B 0:29 RETURN1 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 1C 6. HISTORY STANDARDS - NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the release today of a new set of national history standards. The first standards, released 2 years ago, were roundly criticized for offering too many negative examples about American history. The new standards are decidedly more positive about the American experience, but more importantly they omit the specific curriculum suggestions that many people objected to in the original draft.

The Comal County Fair is billed as the largest county fair in Central Texas. It includes a carnival, livestock show and rodeo, kids events and an antique tractor pull competition.

Poet, critic and translator ROBERT HASS. This year, The U.S. Library Congress named HASS has the American Poet Laureate. Two collections of his work were published last year, Selected Poems 1954-1986, and Provinces 1987-1991. He translated, with poet Robert Pinsky, Czeslaw Milosz's The Separate Notebooks. His essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Antaeus, and Salmagundi. Many of his essays are collected in the book, Twentieth Century. He won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for his first volume of poetry, Field Guide, published in 1973.(Rebroadcast. Originally aired 1/16/89.)Poet SHARON OLDS. She writes passionate and intensely personal poems about her childhood with abusive and alcoholic parents, and her own experiences as a mother and a wife. Suicide attempts in New York, and encounters on the subway also provide inspiration for her work. Sharon Olds is the recipient of the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection titled The Dead and the Living. (Rebroadcast, Originally aired 6/29/88.

The Bucks won their first NBA title in 50 years — beating the Phoenix Suns 105-98 in Game 6. After being down two games to none, the Bucks stormed back to take the next four straight.

2: Writer and former filmmaker GRETEL EHRLICH is the author of "The Solace of Open Spaces," a collection of essays about life on Wyoming's high plains. It was while walking on the Wyoming plains that EHRLICH was struck by lightning. The force of it threw her forty feet, severly damaged part of her nervous system, and sent her into a "solitary limbo." EHRLICH returned to her parents' home for medical treatment and began trying to understand what happened to her. She found explanations in medical books and in The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which described a wandering state between life and death, confusion and enlightenment. EHRLICH's new book is "A Match to the Heart." (Pantheon) (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 6

Host of Comedy Central's "Politically Incorrect," BILL MAHER. The former stand-up comic's new book is "Does Anybody Have a Problem With That: Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits," (Villard) With panelists of diverse ideologies (Patty Hearst to Al Sharpton to G. Gordon Liddy...) and sometimes explosive conflicts, the show has been described as "the McLaughlin Group on acid." "Politically Incorrect" can be seen now on right after Nightline on ABC. BILL MAHER'S previous book is a novel called "True Story" (Random House). (REBROADCAST from 6/13/96).Actress SARAH JESSICA PARKER. She's been acting for most of her life, including playing Annie on Broadway, the young bimbo in "L.A. Story," and a fed-up fiancee in "Honeymoon in Vegas." PARKER also starred in film "Miami Rhapsody," and can currently be seen in the films "First Wives Club" and "Mars Attacks."

The Braves needed six games to put away the Astros, and are now celebrating their first championship since 1995. Atlanta's Jorge Soler was named the series Most Valuable Player.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum reopens Saturday after a 6-year renovation. One new feature is an conservation lab with floor-to-ceiling glass windows. Conservators accustomed to careful, detailed and solitary work on fragile art will now have an audience.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that pirates, who hijacked two French vessels, should get up to 7,000 euros each because of a delay in producing them before a judge.

From theater to art to music, there's plenty going on this weekend. First, the International Fest of Theater concludes this weekend. Roberto Prestigiacamo…