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Boston University Professor Augustus Richard Norton and actor Matt Dillon, on this edition of Fresh Air. Norton is a Professor of International Relations and Anthropology. He has been writing about Lebanon for 25 years and is an expert on the Shiite political movements, including Hezbollah. His books include Amal and the Shi'a: Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon and Civil Society in the Middle East. Norton is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Singer Tony Bennett and film critic David Edelstein on this edition of Fresh Air. Tony Bennett turned 80 years old yesterday. A grocer's son, Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born in Astoria, Queens in 1926. After working as a singing waiter in his teens and then following service in the U.S. Army, he auditioned for Columbia Records and launched a career that started off with his first big hit "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (1950).

Freedom scholar Michael Ledeen and Foreign policy expert Joseph Cirincione on this edition of Fresh Air. Michael Ledeen, the conservative thinker, holds the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute. He prefers the term "democratic revolutionary" to neoconservative. Ledeen has written many books on U.S. foreign policy and has consulted for the Bush Administration.

Actress Maria Bello and journalist Adam Roberts on this edition of Fresh Air. Bello is currently starring in the new film World Trade Center. Her other films include A History of Violence, Thank You for Smoking, and The Cooler. She also played Dr. Anna Del Amico on the TV show ER for one season (1997-98). Then, Roberts of The Economist in London is their former South Africa correspondent.

Chairman Thomas Kean, of the 9/11 Commission, and Charles Vitchers and Bobby Gray, construction workers that aided in the cleanup of Ground Zero, on this edition of Fresh Air. Thomas Kean and his vice-chair, Lee Hamilton, have written a new book, Without Precedent: the Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.

Disaster science specialist Ivor Van Heerden, Monsignor Doug Doussan, and Sister Kathleen Pitman on this edition of Fresh Air. Van Heerden is the cofounder and deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center and director of the Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes. His new book is The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina, the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist.

Rory Stewart is a British diplomat, journalist and former fellow at the Carr Center for Human Tights Policy at Havard's Kennedy School of Government. At the age of 29, following the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Stewart, walked alone across the country. The sometimes harrowing journey took him two years. He wrote about it in the memoir The Places in Between. Then, after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Stewart was appointed a provincial governor.

The New York Times Foreign Affairs columnist Thomas Friedman and Syrian dissident Ammar Abdulhamid on this edition of Fresh Air. Friedman's just returned from Syria. He is a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. In 2002 he won for his "clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat."

Journalist Lawrence Wright on this edition of Fresh Air. Wright is the author of the new book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. The book is based on more than 500 interviews, some with friends and relatives of Osama bin Laden, and examines the circumstances that led to the formation of Al Qaeda. Then, book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Emperor's Children, the new novel by Claire Messud.

The New York Times Chief Military Correspondent Michael Gordon on this edition of Fresh Air. He was recently in Iraq. He'll discuss the efforts to recruit Iraqis for the Iraqi army, and look back at the invasion of Iraq. It's the subject of his recent book Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq.

Actor John C. Reilly on this edition of Fresh Air. Reilly is currently co-starring in the new film Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby with Will Ferrell. He's probably best known for his association with writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson in the films Hard 8, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia. Reilly came out of the Chicago-based drama troupe The Steppenwolf Theatre. He made his film debut in Brian DePalma's Casualties of War.

Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid on this edition of Fresh Air. Rashid files for English language papers including: The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and The Daily Telegraph. He is the author of the book, Taliban, which was published in 2000, and became a best seller after 9/11. Before most Americans knew who the Taliban were, Rashid wrote a book about them.

TV producers David Shore, Mitchell Hurwitz, and Michael Patrick King and actress Lisa Kudrow on this edition of Fresh Air. Shore and Foster are from the FOX T-V series House. The show is nominated for 4 Emmys. The television awards show airs this Sunday night. Shore is the executive producer. David Foster, M.D. is the medical consultant and writes for the series. House, which airs Tuesday evenings, casts a medical malady as the villain.

In "The Corpse as Big as the Ritz", Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and master of the "investigation of investigations", gives us a Hollywood noir with shades of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Raymond Chandler: An inquiry into the "Dirty Little Death in the Desert" of David Whiting, the love-stricken business manager of actress Sarah Miles, who was found dead in the actress's hotel room during the filming of the Burt Reynold's Western The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing.

Journalist and author Anthony Shadid, and film critic John Powers, on this edition of Fresh Air. Anthony Shadid has been reporting from Lebanon. He is the reporter for the Washington Post's Foreign Desk, Middle East. Shadid won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for International Reporting. His latest book is Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, which has just come out in paperback. Shadid is of Lebanese descent and grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.