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Director and Screenwriter ANTHONY MINGHELLA. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the 1996 film The English Patient. The movie also won the Oscar for Best Picture. His film The Talented Mr. Ripley, starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Cate Blanchett is out on video. The film is based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith. (ORIGINAL BROADCAST: 12/22/99) 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (1:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

A jury in Waco, Texas found that the federal government is not responsible for the deaths of 80 Branch Davidians in 1993. The decision came as blow to the surviving Davidians who had hoped that the civil action who hoped the civil action might serve some vindication of their claims of persecution at the hands of the government. NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports.

Yesterday marked the end of the week-long international AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa. Many called the event historical. NPR's Joe Neel reports.

Scott Simon talks to Gary Dahl who won the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Dahl also happens to be the inventor of the Pet Rock.

Scott with some thought about kids, sports and their parents.

Scott on Mojo magazine's poll, which selected the Beatles' "In My Life" as the greatest pop song of the century.

Scott Simon talks to Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about track star Marion Jones. Jones has declared that she will win five gold medals in this year's Olympics. Ron is author of the Marion Jones biography, See How She Runs: The Making of a Champion. (Algonquin)

Scott speaks with Shibley Telhami about the Middle East peace talks at Camp David. Telhami holds the Anwar Sadat Chair for Mideastern studies at the University of Maryland.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on how Vladimir Putin's actions as president have stoked the flames of an age old rivalry between St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Scott Simon talks to Thomas Katroscik commissoner of the Stoop Ball league about the stoop ball championships held on a farm in Wisconsin.