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Weekend Edition essayist Alfred Lubrano explores the success of the Andrea Bocelli recording of Con Te Partiro. The song seems omnipresent in the Italian-American community, and even crusty Al has fallen prey to its charms. (4:30) { Note: Song Appears On the Bocelli Cd Romanza - Uni/phillips, Catalog # 539207}

Frank Stasio speaks with humorist Tony Hendra, author of The Gigawit Guide to the E-nglish Language, full of fanciful definitions for our high-tech age. The book is available through his website: www.gigawit.com.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Monica Pereira from Athens, Georgia. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WUGA in Athens, Georgia.)

Frank talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem, who's monitoring violence between Palestinians and Israelis. Clashes over the last four days have left 18 Palestinians dead and hundreds wounded in the deadliest encounter between the two sides in several years.

Jacki talks with the cameraman who shot footage of a Palestinian father and son caught in crossfire on Saturday. A 12-year-old Palestinian boy Mohammed Ramal Aldura was killed . Jacki talks with Talal Abu Rameh, a journalist and cameraman for France Two Television.

The Pope recently cannonized some 120 Chinese Catholics who died in China under religious persecution. Rob Gifford in Beijing reports on China's reaction.

The Internet has exploded the way we do business but according to author Christopher Kush, it hasn't had much impact on how we govern. Many of us can't find the information we want from all that's on line. Kush speaks to host Jacki Lyden about web sites that can make you a more informed voter.

Commentator Doug Brinkley celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Wolfe. The author of Look Homeward, Angel and You Can't Go Home Again was once considered on a par with Fitzgerald and Hemingway; today he's less well known then Tom Wolfe, the author of The Bonfire of Vanities and The Right Stuff.

Popular culture commentator Steven Stark prepares for this election's first presidential debate on Tuesday by offering his rules on how to score the candidates.

Jacki speaks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli from the capital of Montenegro about the scheduled plans for general strikes tomorrow through Serbia to hurry the process of Perident Slobodan Milosevic leaving office after a sound defeat in last week's elections.