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Scott discusses The System, a high-scoring, high-tempo coaching strategy employed by Grinnell College Men's Basketball Coach David Arseneault.

NPR's Alison Aubrey reports on President Bush's intervention yesterday that would prevent airlines from going on strike. It's the first time this President has made an Executive Order to keep airlines in the sky. As negotiating officials for Northwest Airlines officials and mechanics near a strike deadline, the President's executive order puts a 60-day freeze on any strike action.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on efforts to arrange a meeting between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israel's new Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

David Schaper reports from Chicago about a growing debate about whether to build another airport in the city. The conflict has shaken up city politics and will probably involve President Bush as well (5:00).

Host Lisa Simeone speaks with professor Peter Jones of the University of Surrey about his college course on in-flight catering.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Pete Sokolosky from Vernal, Utah. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station KUSU - Utah Public Radio in Logan and KUER University of Utah in Salt Lake City.)

In the wake of last week's high school shooting in Santee, California, NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr provides historical insight into the calls for gun control.

Weekend Edition commentator Tim Brookes describes his adventures traveling from New Mexico to his home in Vermont during the big winter storm in the northeast this past week.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with singer and songwriter Kristin Hersh about her new album, her busy family life, and what it was like being in a rock band, Throwing Muses, at age fourteen. Kristen Hersh's new album is called Sunny Border Blue.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Randy Voepel, Mayor of Santee, Calfornia; Melissa Gern, a sophomore at Santana High School, where this week's deadly school shooting took place; San Diego County District Attorney Paul Pfingst on 15-year-old Charles Andrew Williams, who is in jail on murder and other charges; Vice President Dick Cheney and one of his cardiologists, Dr. Jonathan Reiner of George Washington University Hospital; Florida Judge Joel Lazarus sentencing 14-year-old Lionel Tate to life in prison after Tate's conviction for first-degree murder; President George W. Bush announcing a 60-day cooling-off period for Northwest Airlines and its mechanics union; O.V. Delle Femine, National Director of the Airline Mechanics Fraternal Association; Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (Republican, Illinois) and Representative Charles Rangel (Democrat, New York) on this week's passage by the House of part of President Bush's tax plan.