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Reporter Alice Furlaud, Radcliffe class of '51, visits her old haunts in Cambridge as Harvard is poised to select a new president.

There's no confusion in Mexico about who its next president will be. Vincente Fox is inaugurated today. N-P-R's Gerry Hadden reports.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports from Austin, Texas on George W. Bush's first full day as president elect. He and his aides are working to assemble a cabinet and a White House staff.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Francisco Cox, Professor of Constitutional and International Law at the University of Santiago in Chile about the homicide and kidnapping charges brought by a judge in Chile against former President Augusto Pinochet.

The BBC's Clive Myree reports on a the inpeachment proceedings against Philippines' President Joseph Estrada. Estrada denies the allegations that he's taken millions in various payoffs.

James A. Garfield emerged as the surprise Republican nominee in 1880. He won the presidency, but was only in office for six months.

Philippine President Joseph Estrada has been impeached on charges that he received millions of dollars in illegal payoffs. NPR's Eric Weiner reports that articles of impeachment will be sent to the Senate for a trial to determine whether Estrada should be removed from office.

Vice presidential debates have had little visible effect on the immediate presidential campaigns of which they've been part. But they have made a difference to the future political careers of their participants -- who have often gone on to run for president themselves. NPR's Madeleine Brand reports.

After 10 years of authoritarian rule, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori announced that he is stepping down. The statement announcing Fujimori's imminent resignation came from the leader's ancestral homeland of Japan, which he is currently visiting. John Miller reports from Peru.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that goes on before a candidate officially declares his presidential candidacy.