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Weekend Edition's resident satirists at The Montana Logging and Ballet Company offer some common sense solutions for those viewers who have not been pleased by NBC's tape-delayed Olympic television coverage.

Weekend Edition sports commentator Tim Green talks with Frank about some recent examples of the decline of sportsmanship in athletics, including taunting incidents at the Olympics and in the National Football League.

The summer olympics games are now over in Sydney, Australia. NPR's Howard Berkes reports on the what's been learned and takes a look ahead to the winter games of 2002 in Salt Lake City. (

Today Green Party Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader held a protest rally to raise the fact that he's excluded from this week's upcoming presidential debates.

Weekend Edition essayist Alfred Lubrano explores the success of the Andrea Bocelli recording of Con Te Partiro. The song seems omnipresent in the Italian-American community, and even crusty Al has fallen prey to its charms. (4:30) { Note: Song Appears On the Bocelli Cd Romanza - Uni/phillips, Catalog # 539207}

The infrastructure bill moving through Congress includes billions of dollars to modernize the electric grid. One of the goals is to make the system less vulnerable during severe weather.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Monica Pereira from Athens, Georgia. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WUGA in Athens, Georgia.)

Jacki speaks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli from the capital of Montenegro about the scheduled plans for general strikes tomorrow through Serbia to hurry the process of Perident Slobodan Milosevic leaving office after a sound defeat in last week's elections.

The Internet has exploded the way we do business but according to author Christopher Kush, it hasn't had much impact on how we govern. Many of us can't find the information we want from all that's on line. Kush speaks to host Jacki Lyden about web sites that can make you a more informed voter.

Jacki talks with the cameraman who shot footage of a Palestinian father and son caught in crossfire on Saturday. A 12-year-old Palestinian boy Mohammed Ramal Aldura was killed . Jacki talks with Talal Abu Rameh, a journalist and cameraman for France Two Television.

The Pope recently cannonized some 120 Chinese Catholics who died in China under religious persecution. Rob Gifford in Beijing reports on China's reaction.

Frank speaks with author John Keane about his book Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts. (Basic Books). Vaclav Havel is President of the Czech Republic. Keane asserts that Havel's life has been shaped and determined by major political shifts of the 20th century: World War II, the rise and fall of Communism, the Prague Spring and the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe.