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Noah visits the Midnight Shakespeare program at the Gilman Street Recreation Center in San Francisco. About twenty high schools students gather three evenings a week for acting classes taught by local professional actors affiliated with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. The teachers say that the students learn more than the classics; they leave the program with the ability to take another person's attitude or point of view.

WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL REVIEWS THE H-B-O MOVIE "THE LATE SHIFT."

for the Republican Presidential nomination. Buchanan has based much of his campaign on the notion that large corporations and banks are profiting at the expense of workers and their families, and that those multinational companies have undue influence over government policy.

DAN SCHORR ANALYZES THE RACE FOR THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN THE WAKE OF PAT BUCHANAN'S NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY WIN WITH REPUBLICAN POLLSTER AND STRATEGIST FRANK LUNTZ AND WITH RON FAUCHEUX (FO-shay), EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF 'CAMPAIGNS AND ELECTIONS' MAGAZINE.

NPR's Renee Montagne reports that this Monday the Supreme Court will hear a case that examines whether African-Americans are the subject of special prosecution in federal drug cases. Some argue that blacks are prosecuted in disproportionately high numbers when compared to whites.

We're going to follow a little league baseball team this summer, so today we attend one of their practices. The Yankees are half boys and half girls. Girls and Boys playing on the same baseball team is not THAT surprising these days.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on a recent trend among the big automakers of maintaining large reserves of cash, rather like rainy day funds, to serve as a financial cushion during the next recession. In the past the companies have had little in the way of cash reserves and have had to cut back on new projects when sales were down.

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT ABOUT THE NBA PLAYOFFS, WHICH THIS WEEK SAW CHICAGO BULLS' MICHAEL JORDAN'S MAGIC FIZZLE.

In today's competitive world of produce - maintaining ideals about the quality and flavor of the fruits you grow has become increasingly difficult. David Mas Masumoto has had to compromise his ideals in order to keep making money off his peach orchard in southern California and in doing so is slowly weeding out a variety of peach his father began growing and one Masumoto still maintains is far better than any peach available today. In his book "Epitaph for a Peach" Masumoto writes about the demise of the "Suncrest" variety. "Epitaph for a Peach" is published by HarperSanFrancisco.

Daniel talks with Journalist David Shipler and Michael Dawson, professor of political science at the University of Chicago. Both Shipler and Dawson have researched Black American attitudes toward government and the criminal justice system.