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Lisa speaks with two former mayors of Cincinnati, Ohio: David Mann, who is white, and Dwight Tillery, who is black. They discuss the racial tensions that seem present in Cincinnati after the shooting death of an unarmed black citizen by a white police officer. Because of rioting and looting, a public curfew was imposed, which ended last week.

This weekend the 28th annual International Whistler's Competition is being held in Louisburg, North Carolina. Scott speaks with whistler extraordinaire Christopher Ullman.

A judge in Atlanta ruled yesterday that a book patterned after Margaret Mitchell's classic Gone With the Wind is not a parody, and therefore not constitutionally protected. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.

Lisa speaks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea about the talks amongst world leaders at the Summit.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from Guatemala, one of the world's leading centers for international adoptions. Americans are turning more often to Latin America to adopt, and most are arranged legally, but there are problems.

In the wake of Mississippi's voting to keep the Confederate Battle Flag as a symbol, commentator Diane Roberts looks at the new south and finds disturbing reminders of the past.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Matthew Cahill from Gustavus, Alaska. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station KTOO in Juneau.)

NPR's David Molpus reports on an alluring new book about getting the most out of your employees.

A private aircraft carrying American missionaries was shot down by the Peruvian air force yesterday when they mistook it for a drug smuggling plane. Host Lisa Simeone talks to freelance reporter Sharon Stevenson in Lima, Peru.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including EPA Administrator Christie Whitman on the Bush administration's decision to uphold new regulations on toxic lead; Randy Eddy of La Crosse, Wisconsin and Wisconsin Governor Scott McCallum; Greg Stewart, who led a campaign to keep Mississippi's current state flag which features the Confederate battle emblem and Blake Wilson, Director, Mississippi Economic Council, who supported removing the emblem; Jim Glassman, Senior Economist, J.P. Morgan; demonstrators clashing with police at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Canada; President George W. Bush; Jordan's Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah Khatib and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.