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ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT SPIKE LEE'S NEW MOVIE "CLOCKERS."

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

AS THE FOURTH U.N.'S WOMEN'S CONFERENCE CONCLUDED, NPR'S JULIE McCARTHY REPORTS FROM BEIJING ON WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED AND WHAT THE RESULTING DRAFTED DOCUMENTS MEAN.

Daniel talks to Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-WA, and Pamela Dunn, a former welfare mother, who were partners in a program called Walk a Mile in Your Sister's Shoes, which paired lawmakers with welfare recipients. Pamela Dunn said that she expected a Republican member of Congress to be participating in the program just for appearances but found that Rep. Dunn was very gracious and even changed her position on one issue because of their conversations.

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NPR's Patricia Neighmond looks back at President Clinton's failed effort to implement health care reform, and notes that there's been a political role reversal of sorts, with Republicans now heading up an attempt to change the way the country's medical services are delivered.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with poet Christopher Merrill about his new ook, "The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee." Milkweed Editions, 1995) Merrill gives a poet's perspective on the conflict and ts by-product: thousands of refugees.

Host Liane Hansen talks with Norwegian Philosopher ostein Gaarder (YOH-steyn GORDER) about his book, "Sophie's World: A Novel bout The History of Philosophy" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Part novel, part hilosophy primer, "Sophie's World," explores some of the eternal questions sked by philosophers for centuries. "Sophie's World" is an international estseller. So far, it has sold about 3-1/2 million copies worldwide and has een translated into about 40 languages including English.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr explores how and why the nabomber's treatise came to be published.

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