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

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.

Sister Isolina Ferre died this week at the age of 85. She cared for the poor from Brooklyn, Appalachia, to her native Puerto Rico. Scott remembers her.

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.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports that the tragedies of the gulag archipelago still haunt the Siberian mining city of Norilsk. Stalin deported prisoners to this frozen region in Russia's far north to mine some of the world's richest deposits of nickel, palladium and platinum. Today, construction crews plough up miners' bones from mass graves in the industrial wasteland.

Game Misconduct - A new opera about...hockey. This opera was written by Canadians. There's the high drama of a country defending its' national pride against marauding invaders (that would be the American hockey team); the tragedy of defeat; the exultation of the fans; and the loss of a way of life. The music was composed by Leslie Uyeda; the libretto written by Tom Cone. Game Misconduct premieres tonight as part of Festival Vancouver - a three-week music festival. Performances of the opera continue through next week. Marcie Sillman, of member station KUOW, reports.

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

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 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.

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