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It's Oscar time and NPR's Andy Trudeau has his annual sounding of the musical nominees for Best Score. In the first of three parts, he tells Liane about Tan Dun's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Gladiator with music by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports on today's municipal election in Paris. Because of recent government corruption scandals, Parisians may select liberal candidates for the first time in100 years.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with KUNC station manager Neil Best about the recent sale of the public radio station in Greeley, Colorado. The University of Northern Colorado sold the station to the "friends of KUNC" after a battle for control with Colorado Public Radio, based in Denver.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on U.N. Secretary Kofi Annan's unsuccessful appeal to leaders of Afghanistan's Islamic Taliban government to stop the destruction of two huge Buddha statues. Secretary Annan was told that the statues, which are carved from a rock cliff near the central Afghan town of Bamian , are mostly destroyed.

In the first of a series of conversations with members of President Bush's cabinet, host Bob Edwards talks to Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi. They discuss some of the problems confronting his department. Secretary Principi says one of his priorities is eliminating the backlog of claims for veterans benefits. He says the Department of Veterans Affairs provides medical care to more than four million veterans a year and that more money is needed to improve the quality of that care. President Bush is requesting one billion dollars for the department for next year.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports on recent upheavals in the Brazilian Senate. The Senate's former president is threatening to topple the current government. And some think he has the evidence to do so.

As song-swapping service Napster braces to block 135,000 titles drawn up by record companies in compliance of a federal injunction, Weekend Edition technology commentator Rich Dean offers his thoughts on the continuing online music wars.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with the translators of a new English edition of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel, Anna Karenina (Viking Penguin/2001). Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear are a husband and wife translating team. She's Russian, he's American. They talk about the delicate art of translation.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Gerry Hadden about the end of the Zapatistas' trek to the capital to push for legislation that will guarantee the rights of indigenous people.

NPR's Steve Inskeep joined a dozen U.S. senators who are working on a Habitat for Humanity project in Capitol Heights, MD.