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Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr spoke with E.J. Dionne, columnist at the Washington Post and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, and William Maynes, Editor of Foreign Policy Journal at the Carnegie Endowment about what President Clinton's second term might hold for him..

Scott talks to Brendan Buckley, the marketing manager for The Irish Pub Company of Dublin, Ireland. The company sells ready-to-build Irish Pubs to countries all over the world.

Musicians and record companies stand to benefit year after year from the staying power of such albums... like Nat King Cole's " >Christmas Album", which has remained a favorite for nearly four decades.

Scott speaks with Jim Naydar, host and producer of W-B-E-Z's (Chicago) "The Annoying Music Show."

Scott talks to George Campbell, a descendant of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of "Anne of Green Gables". It has become quite common for Japanese citizens to fly to Charlottestown, Prince Edward Island, Canada to get married where the fictious Anne was married in the book.

Scott speaks with writer Lee Smith about her experience teaching adult literacy students creative writing at the Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky, and with one of her students there, Florida Slone, about how she feels finally being able to write down her songs and stories.

The deadline has passed for submissions to our Thanksgiving ssay contest

Reporter Barbara Mantel (man-TELL) tells the story of the teenaged Garcia girls. They arrived in October from the Dominican Republic and now live with their fatehr in Queens divorced. This is the story of their adjustment to the U.S. They are making good progress in their ESL classes...but the 17 year old is worried about learning the language well enough to attend college. At lunch time they sit with other Spanish speaking kids...although they say confrontations between English speaking kids and Spanish speaking kids are common.

to address the controversy over illicit campaign contributions to the DNC at a news conference today. The Republicans are stepping up their calls for investigations of the affair.

We catch up with some of the closest and most contested election results. Neil Tickner of member station WHYY reports on the race in Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district, where a recount is being held because the winner gained victory by only ten votes.