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Film critic Bob Mondello reviews "A Midwinter's Tale", Kenneth Branagh's behind-the-scenes farce about an English production of Hamlet.

Commentator Michele Mitchell says the GOP has and has had for a long time a very sophisticated machine in place to attract young voters. Since the days of Richard Nixon, the Republicans have reached out to young people on campus, through lunches, happy hours and other events. The Democrats have no such machine, and in big states like California, the average age of registered Democrats is more than 65.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says that neither Congress nor President Clinton will decide the outcome of the current budget crisis. He says it is the voters who made balancing the budget the issue in 1994, and it is the voters who will rule on it in this year's elections.

In New York City, dozens of pyschiatrists are volunteering to find and help homeless people suffering from mental illness. Reporter Richard Schiffman reports that they they are seeking out these non-traditional patients in some very non-traditional ways.

JULIUS KNIPL, REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER, AND SOME FRIENDS PURSUE THEIR FAVORITE MID-WINTER MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE TITLED "THE RADIATOR MUSICIAN."

caucus venues in Iowa. He reports on the debate and the issues on the minds' of voters at a Des Moines City precinct.

The Zairean government today announced it was closing a refugee camp that is home to almost 2-hundred thousand Rwandan refugees. NPR's Michael Skoler reports that the government is trying to force the refugees to return to Rwanda. Many of them have been living in the camp for more than one year, and Zaire now says it can no longer afford to take care of them.

WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPPOPORT DISCUSSES BASEBALL'S NEW PROPOSAL FOR REGULAR-SEASON, INTER-LEAGUE PLAY STARTING IN 1997.

SCOTT AND THE U.S. SENATE'S HISTORIAN LOOK AT THE LAST ELECTION YEAR WHEN LOTS OF INCUMBENT SENATORS DECLINED A CHANCE AT RE-ELECTION -- EXACTLY A CENTURY AGO.

Linda Gradstein reports from Tel Aviv on the trial of Yigal Amir, who has confessed to killing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. On the day the prosecution rested its case, it was clear that the defense was in disarray and that Amir might be forced to use an insanity defense.