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NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr looks at the history of residential pardons. 3:30

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including President Clinton on Bosnia, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. adeline Albright on Zaire, an unidentified pilot decribing last week's ollision by two planes in India, Jesse Jackson and an unidentified motorist on he Texaco boycott, and the late Joseph Cardinal Bernadin revealing the illness hat led to his death last week.

two years of ideological and budgetary attacks from Republicans in Congress, much to the dismay of conservatives.

Noah talks with Nick Thorpe, a BBC reporter in Bucharest, Romania, about the surprising results of the recent Romanian elections. A former geology professor and a political novice, Emil Constantinescu, upset the incumbent president. Now, the president-elect must try to bring the former Soviet bloc country towards a market economy. Thorpe says the populace showed deep emotion in victory rallies - of the sort Thorpe has not witnessed there since the revolution of 1989.

Scott speaks with Peter Landau, co-author (with Shepherd Campbell) of "Presidential Lies: The Illustrated History of White House Golf." (Macmillan)

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the fight, last weekend, between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, and what it seems to have done to revive the sport of boxing.

The town of West Hartford, Connecticut, is running out of burial space. NPR's Margot Adler reports on a novel approach to the problem, which secures more burial space while providing the living with a new spot for their picnics.

Liane Hansen speaks with photographer Nubar Alexanian NEW-bar uh-lex-AY-nee-ahn), about his new book of photography "Where Music omes From," (Dewi Lewis Publishing), which is a celebration of music and hotography.

Essayist Mike Renfro looks at the controversy sparked earlier this eek when a six-year-old boy kissed his classmate on her cheek

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the US-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians will get under way Tuesday as forecast, but the talks will begin with both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat meeting separaely with President Clinton before any face-to-face meeting between the two Middle East leaders can take place. Even as the meetings in Washington were being prepared, however, US administration officials were lowering expectations that even the previously-agreed-to Oslo Accords could be reactivated.