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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.

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 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.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the Reverend Franklin Graham about his life and his ministry. Graham stands poised to inherit his father's Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone looks at the history of convention coverage - and the reasons for the declining interest in it - over the course of this century. It seems H.L. Mencken was just as disgruntled with conventions in the 1920's as was Ted Koppel four years ago.

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.

Napster has won a temporary reprieve. A federal appeals court stayed a lower court injunction that would have effectively shut down the song-swapping service used by millions. NPR's John McChesney reports.

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.

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.

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