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Weekend Edition entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell tells Susan about the new movie "Sleepers."

NPR's Vicky Que reports on the rise of drug use, particularly marijuana, among teenagers and how researchers are still deciding on the best method for curtailing it. One problem may be that baby boomer parents haven't been as concerned about marijuana use by teenagers as experts think they should be. Marijuana is also much cheaper and more readily available today, which makes it difficult for law enforcement to control.

SEX & POLITICS: NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr shares his houghts on the latest sex scandal to fell a political operative. Dick Morris, he man who engineered President Clinton's political comeback, resigned after a rostitute with whom he was involved alleged he shared inside information with er.

NPR's Mandelit Del Barco reports on the growing nfluence of associations formed by Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles. The ity is home to an estimated 500-thousand immigrants who have formed these roups in an effort to help rebuild El Salvador's war-torn economy.

to Washington that comes just days after he met with Palestinian leader Arafat. >

With the Iraqi-supported Kurdish Democratic Party militias of Mahmoud Barzani routing his Iran-backed rivals of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, NPR's Michael Shuster talks with Robert about the view of the conflict from Baghdad. The bottom line is that acting through its Kurdish surrogates, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appears to have regained control of his northern Kurdish provinces after five years of having been prevented from doing so by the United States and its UN allies.

Robert & Linda note the use of the phrase "as we know it" as an appendage to words such as "welfare", "the IRS". It can be traced back to the late 19th century, but has won a place in political parlance only lately.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that the mayor of Jerusalem is about to be indicted for fraud and falsifying documents. The Israeli Attorney General says those illegal activities occured six years ago when the mayor, Ehud Olmert, was the treasurer of the Likud party...the party now in power in Israel.

City's mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is challenging two provisions of the new immigration and welfare laws in federal court. NPR's Margo Adler reports. (4:30) [outcue: "... It will be up to the federal courts to decide whose claim is superior. I'm Margo Adler reporting."]

with NPR science correspondant Joe Palca about a new discovery in ocean life.