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In the 18 states with bans on executing convicted criminals who are mentally retarded, defining mental retardation can be a life and death issue. For Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR's Joe Shapiro follows the case of one man on death row in North Carolina who is trying to prove he is mentally retarded.

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.

Olympic officials are facing accusations concerning double-standards in their anti-doping rules following the dismissal of an American bobsledder. NPR's Tom Goldman reports from the Winter Olympic games in Utah.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including International Olympic Committee President Dr. Jacques Rogge; Canadian figure skater David Pelletier; Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.); former Enron Chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay; Representative Martin Meehan (D-Mass.); Representative Dick Armey (R-Tex.); President George W. Bush; Senator James Jeffords (I-Vt.); and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

Despite its factual flaws, George Washington Crossing the Delaware is considered a historical document -- a virtual snapshot of the American Revolution. As part of the Present at the Creation series, NPR's Ina Jaffe examines the famous painting.

John Ridley takes us to a world few people know about -- the world of the true comic book junkie. Ridley explores the defining quality of the comic book fan: delusion. It's a place where fans ponder the private lives of Aquaman and Wonder Woman. (10:24)

In an extraordinary move, Canadian figure skating pair Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were awarded a gold medal as Olympic and skating officials moved to quell a judging controversy that has overshadowed the Winter Games. The Canadians will share the gold medal with the Russian skaters whose victory in the pairs this week set off a firestorm of criticism. The French judge whose vote tipped the pairs competition to the Russians was suspended from the Olympics by the skating federation. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

Host John Ydstie talks to NPR's Sylvia Poggioli about the first week in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague. (5:30)

Country music star Waylon Jennings died this week at the age of 64. Born in 1937 in Littlefield, Texas, he was a disc jockey at 14, and had already formed his own band at the age of 12, making guest appearances on local station KDAV's Sunday Party, where he met Buddy Holly in 1955. Jennings became Holly's bass player. It was Jennings who gave his seat up to the Big Bopper on the plane that crashed and killed Buddy Holly. In 1975, Waylon was named the Country Music Association's Male Vocalist of the Year, and in 1976, he helped found the "Outlaw Movement." In that year, Waylon, Willie, Jessi Colter (who married Waylon in 1969) and Tompall Glaser teamed up for Wanted: The Outlaws that became the first platinum (one million units) album ever recorded in Nashville. Waylon, the authorized autobiography, was written with writer-musician Lenny Kaye in 1996.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that Slobodan Milosevic lashed out against the U.N. war crimes tribunal today on the second day of his war crimes trial. The former Yugoslav president called the trial a "lynch process," and challenged the tribunal's jurisdiction. Milosevic is charged with crimes against humanity, including genocide, for his role in the Balkan wars of the 1990s.