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NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Warsaw that a special tribunal today cleared former Polish president Lech Walesa of charges he collaborated with the communist-era secret police. The court ruled that in the early eighties, the Interior Ministry faked documents, casting Walesa as an informant, to undermine his chances of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Thursday, the court also cleared the current president Alexander Kwasniewski, of similar charges of collaboration.

Commentator Jeffrey Tayler was in the Belarusian town of Polatsk. He opted to spend the evening at the restaurant in his hotel. As he writes in his journal, he was pulled into the drunken conversation of two young women. The women mistake him for a Pole, and take offense at his unwillingness to share their bottle of vodka with him.

Scott speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea, who is covering Al Gore's presidential campaign as he makes his way to the Democratic convention in Los Angeles.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with New York Times Magazine reporter Benjamin Weiser. One of his recent articles gives a detailed account of one man's harrowing journey. Diagnosed schizophrenic Kerry Sanders was falsely imprisoned for two years, a sentence that should have been served by Robert Sanders, a fugitive with a long criminal history.

The Chinese government also restricted private tutoring in an effort to even the playing field among students.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on the meeting of the North American Anarchist Conference in Los Angeles this past week. City officials feared violence leading up to the Democratic convention, but the anarchists focused more on social issues than protests.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports from Cleveland, where Vice President Al Gore campaigned Saturday. Gore is making one last swing through several key states before heading to Los Angeles for this week's Democratic National Convention.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on the canonization of Tsar Nicholas the Second by the Russian Orthodox Church. The Tsar and his family were the best known victims of the Russian Revolution in 1918, but there is controversy surrounding their canonization as so-called "New Martyrs."

NPR's Bob Mondello takes a look back at the life and career of actress Loretta Young. Young, who won an Oscar Award in 1947 for her role in The Farmer's Daughter, died today of ovarian cancer.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks Tom Santaniello, who at 17, is the youngest delegate attending the Democratic Convention. Santaniello has been involved in politics in his home state of South Carolina since he was an 8th grader, just four years ago. As a class assignment, he had to write to someone famous he admired. While others wrote to sports heroes, he wrote to Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC). Since then, he's been volunteering on campaigns, and has attended state party conventions.

Host Jacki Lyden opens up our mailbag, and reads some of our listeners' letters.

Aaron Alpern of Wyoming Public Radio reports on the status of the Black-footed Ferret. The species was declared extinct in 1979, but two years later one was found in Wyoming, and eventually a colony was discovered and nursed back to health.