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Liane speaks once again with NPR's Andy Trudeau about this year's nominees for best dramatic film score. Today's focus is on John Williams, perhaps best known for his music to "Star Wars" (Fox 07822-11012-2). This year he is nominated for his score to "Sleepers" (Philips 454-88-2). Andy finds part of the score evocative of Aaron Copland's "Quiet City" (DG 419-170-2). They also recap the previously-discussed nominees, including Patrick Doyle's music for "Hamlet" (Sony SK 62857), Elliot Goldenthal's score for "Michael Collins" (Atlantic Classics 82960-2), David Hirschfelder's score to "Shine" (Philips 454-710-2), and Gabriel Yared's score to "The English Patient" (Fantasy FCD-16001-2). Finally, Andy gives his pick for the best score.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the political brouhaha surrounding serious fire code violations that may keep many Washington DC schools from opening on time. This is the second time over the past 3 school years that a judge has ordered the district to fix code violations before opening certain schools. The DC Superintendant of Schools has been accused of misusing money that has been set aside to fixing the city's aging schools. All in all, the situation is creating new anxieties for local parents already concerned about the quality of the school system. In 1992, parents filed a lawsuit to force the school board to take care of the conditions - they won the suit but have had to go back to the court two more times and are still not satisfied.

"I hope that not having to worry about the costs associated with burying their loved ones will help as they move forward and heal," the Grammy-winning rapper said.

The iconic restaurant capsized in the South China Sea less than a week after it was towed away from the city.

The discovery of figs in an 11,400-year-old house near the ancient city of Jericho may be evidence that cultivated crops came centuries before the first farmers planted cereal grains.

Fuchsia Dunlop was the first Westerner to study cooking at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine in the western Chinese city of Chengdu, back in the 1990s. She has written a food memoir of her time in China, Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper.

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck Mexico early Thursday, causing buildings to sway and leaving at least one person dead in the nation's capital.

Not just a literary movement, the Harlem Renaissance was also the name of a famous ballroom in the New York City neighborhood and a barrier-breaking basketball team. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has written a book that chronicles their histories.

In a new novel by author John Wray, Lowboy has a plan to save the Earth from global warming: He will cool the planet by losing his virginity on the New York City subway. The idea may seem far-fetched, but not to Lowboy, a 16-year-old schizophrenic who has recently escaped from a mental hospital.

Joe Auvil, a Dade City resident, beat out 124 entrants. Auvil, who already shares Hemingway's passion for fishing, is dressing for the job he wants: "Every man wants to write like Hemingway," he said.