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In an exclusive report for Morning Edition from NPR's Steve Inskeep, residents of an Afghan village claim American soldiers killed at least 18 people who were actually loyal to the new government -- and that American officials paid the victims' relatives $1,000 in reparations.

Former Enron chair Kenneth Lay sat stone-faced before a Senate committee, refusing to explain what brought down the energy giant. He joins five others who have invoked the Fifth Amendment over the Enron scandal. NPR's Emily Harris has the latest for All Things Considered.

Noah Adams talks with Wall Street Journal sports reporter Stefan Fatsis about NBC's presentation of the Winter Olympics. With fewer profiles and more coverage of the events themselves, the ratings for the games are up. NBC will most likely turn a profit on the games, which is rare for a large sporting event these days.

Actress Elaine Stritch launches her one woman show, At Liberty, at Broadways Neil Simon Theatre February 13, 2002. Stritch is an established Broadway star whos appeared in the hits Company,Pal Joey, On Your Toes, Bus Stop and Love Letters. Shes also been in many TV shows and films and shes the narrator for the PBS series EGG: the Arts Show.

Weekend Edition Sunday music director Ned Wharton offers up three new CDs of a "minimalist" tone.

Language expert Richard Lederer takes on the misuse of "hopefully," subject-verb agreement, and "one of the only" versus "one of the few." Send Lederer a message about your own pet peeve, and listen to past shows in this series. (5:00)

NPR's Tom Goldman reports the International Skating Union is conducting an "internal assessment" of the controversial judging in this week's pairs skating competition. A skating union official confirmed that the American referee of the pairs competition has complained about pressure being applied to at least one of the judges in the competition. The Russian pair of Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze received the gold medal over Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier on Monday, setting off the first major furor of the Winter Games.

American speed skating has traditionally been dominated by athletes from the upper Midwest, skaters with hair and skin as pale as the frozen lakes and rinks they raced on as kids. But that has all changed due to the popularity of in-line skating in warmer climates, NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports for Morning Edition.

Film director and writer Todd Solondz. His new film is Storytelling and it has already inflamed some critics more than his previous two features, Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness. Those films won prizes at Sundance and Cannes. Storytelling is two separate stories set in high school and college. In one, we meet three college students and their writing professor. The other is about a filmmaker who wants to make a documentary about a high school senior and his family.

In Part Three of her Armchair Gardener series, NPR's Doyenne of Dirt, Ketzel Levine tours a Tasmanian garden via the miracle of mobile phones.