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The Toronto International Film Fest is usually mobbed with over a thousand industry types from all over the world. But this year the partially-online festival has been bleak and deserted.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with journalist Geraldine Brooks who is reporting on the Sydney Olympics for the Wall Street Journal. It seems that Sydney residents are trying to take some pomp out of the ceremony of the games, satirizing them in tv shows, and holding mock-athletic competitions.

Weekend Edition's resident satirists in Montana have been bickering over who's to blame for their state's rash of wildfires.

Past racial and ethnic tensions are heating up the congressional campaign in New York's 17th District. Congressman Eliot Engel who is Jewish, is seeking a seventh term challenged by State Senator Larry Seabrook, an African-American. Andrea Bernstein reports from member station WNYC.

Los Angeles film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the German movie Aimee and Jaguar. It's based on a bestseller that tells the true love story of two women during the Second World War. One woman, a Jewish poet, masquerades as an Aryan to work at a Nazi paper and passes information to the underground. Her lover is a conventional German wife, whose philandering husband is fighting on the front. Turan says the movie captures the complexity of the characters and the terror of the times.

One of the issues most often mentioned by voters this election year is education. The presidential candidates Al Gore andGeorge W. Bush are responding. Both men have made schools and education reform a top priority on the campaign trail. But as NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports, what can the president of the United States really do to improve the nation's schools?

NPR's Margo Adler reports concerns about traffic and security are tremendous, as the UN Millennium Summit gets under way in New York City.

Commentator Frank Deford weighs in with his feelings on prayer at high school football games.

We ask listeners for their questions for the Presidential candidates.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports the civil case against Aryan Nations, a neo-Nazi group based in Idaho, has gone to the jury. Prosecutors are suing asking for more than 11 million dollars in damages stemming from a 1998 incident where three Aryan Nations security guards allegedly assaulted a women and her son at gunpoint.