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Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the surprising Chicago White Sox baseball team: surprising that they're playing so well, and because very few people in Chicago seem to care.

Scott talks to Chicago fire commissioner James T. Joyce about that fire deparment's decision to retire the fire pole.

Scott speaks with Kitty Harmon about a new book she has edited called, Up to No Good, the Rascally Things Boys Do, as Told by Perfectly Decent Grown Men.

One hundred years ago this weekend, Italian-American Gaetano Bresci assasinated the King of Italy, Umerto I. Scott speaks with Robert Viscusi who is a professor of English at Brooklyn College and President of the Italian-American Writers Association about the event.

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

Linda has a series of interviews about tonight's scheduled shutdown of Napster -- the Web-based service that allows users to trade music recordings free of charge. A US District court judge ordered Napster to stop facilitating these trades tonight at midnight, saying the company was aiding copyright infringement. Linda talks to Ric Dube an analyst with Webnoize, which researches and reports on the new media entertainment industry. Then she chats with two university students. First, Jeff Meredith, who will be a senior at Indiana University in the fall, and has 1000 MP3 files on his computer, about 400 of which come from Napster. And finally, Sam Ross, a student at the University of Virginia who has thousands of mp3 files, downloaded courtesy of Napster.

A new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government shows that a significant number of voters who say they will vote for Mr. Bush or Mr. Gore also say they might change their minds. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.

Peru's President Alberto Fujimori was sworn in for an unprecedented third term on Friday. Thousands of protesters clashed with police in riots that killed six people trapped in a burning bank. NPR's Madelit del Barco reports.

Millions of music fans cheered Friday's appeals court ruling that lets the internet music company Napster stay in business at least temporarily. Napster was slated to shut down most of its Web service at midnight Friday. Jacki talks to NPR's Rick Karr about why Napster has been such a hot-button case for music fans and internet users, and why the move to shut it down may hurt the recording industry more than help it.

On Friday the Justice Department asked the U.S. Supreme Court for its official thoughts about pot. Two weeks ago a federal judge in San Francisco ruled there can be legitimate medical reasons to make the drug available legally. Now the Justice Department's action could set the stage for new rules about marijuana. Kai Ryssdal reports from San Francisco.

Mid-summer is the busiest time of year for America's traveling circuses. These family-owned businesses play rural towns and county fairs across the country. Stiff competition from movies and television has forced circuses to be leaner and more efficient - but the allure of clowns and elephants and trapeze artists still draws a good crowd. Reporter Brian Mann spent the morning recently with a circus as they prepared for a show.

Character actor JOHN C. REILLY. REILLY can currently be seen in the film –The Perfect Storm.— He's starred in all three of director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson's films. He played a small-time gambler In "Hard Eight," a porn star In "Boogie Nights," and a police officer In "Magnolia." –Magnolia— has just been released on video. REILLY has also worked with directors Brian DePalma ("Casualties of War") and Terrence Malik ("The Thin Red Line"). REILLY got his start in Chicago at the Goodman School of Drama and worked with the Steppenwolf theatre. ORIGINAL BROADCAST: 1/13/00 (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW). 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (1:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12: