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Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about the new movie The Replacements and other football movies.

Scott speaks with comedian Margaret Cho about her life and her one woman show, I'm The One That I Want, which is now on film.

In Angola, Sierra Leone, and the Congo, the diamond trade has provided insurgent movements with billions of dollars worth of wealth and arms to continue their murderous campaigns. The United Nations has taken unprecedented steps to cut off the illicit diamond trade. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

Scott speaks with a cappuccino expert about making the perfect cup.

Scott with some thoughts about Joseph Lieberman, Al Gore's designated running mate.

A Boston-based heavyweight boxer named John the Quietman Ruiz steps into the ring tonight to fight Evander Holyfield for the World Boxing Association's heavyweight championship. Jason Beaubien, of member station WBUR in Boston, has a profile of Mr. Ruiz.

Noah talks with Jonathan Zittrain, asst. prof. of law and is co-dir. of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard School of Law. They talk about the efforts of the French legal system to deal with internet access from France to an online auction of Nazi memorabilia by Yahoo. France has a law against the buying and selling of Nazi items. Mr. Zittrain talks about the legal precedents for the law, and the technical difficulty to enacting it.

Charlotte Renner reports that a pharmaceutical industry trade group is suing the State of Maine over a new drug pricing law. The law enables the state to negotiate lower prices for Maine residents who do not have insurance coverage for perscription drugs. Maine's law has attracted the interest of other states that are also looking to reduce drug prices.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports from Portland, Oregon where he's covering George W. Bush's presidential campaign.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.