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Journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele are in the first half and director Todd Haynes and designer Mark Friedberg are on the second half of Fresh Air for today, December 16, 2002. Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporters, have written together since the 1970s for several major newspapers and magazines. Their latest piece covers Native American owned casinos and appears in this month's TIME magazine.

Former U.S. ambassador to Croatia Peter W. Galbraith and professor of psychiatry and psychology Robert Jay Lifton on this edition of Fesh Air. Peter W. Galbraith is now professor of national-security studies at the National War College in Washington D.C. Since the late 1980s he's been tracking Iraqi war crimes. He has also worked closely with the Kurds - who govern a small territory in Iraq. He'll talk with Terry about what a post-Saddam Iraq might look like.

Hear author Mohammed Hafez, Tammy Faye Messner, and TV critic David Bianculli on this edition of Fresh Air. Mohammed Hafez is the author of the book Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom. Then, we remember Tammy Faye Messner (previously Bakker). She died Friday at the age of 65 from cancer.

Hear the former head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, Jack Goldsmith; film critic David Edelstein; and TV critic David Bianculli on this edition of Fresh Air. The Office of Legal Counsel advises the president on the limits of executive power. Jack Goldsmith resigned as head after nine months. During his tenure, he battled the Bush White House on the infamous "torture memos" and issues of surveillance and the trial of suspected terrorists.

Head coach of the L.A. Lakers Phil Jackson, producer Henry Hampton, and journalist Nicholas Lehmann on this archival edition of Fresh Air. Jackson talks about coaching prior to leading the Lakers to the championship. Jackson coached the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships with his unique coaching style. Before that he played for eleven years with the New York Knicks, worked as a television color commentator, and coached minor-league for four years.

Hear historian Raymond Arsenault, critic-at-large John Powers, and film critic David Edelstein, on this edition of Fresh Air. In Raymond Arsenault's book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Arsenault recounts how an integrated group of self-proclaimed freedom riders challenged segregation by riding together on buses through the deep South.

Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki and journalist Susan Orlean on this edition of Fresh Air. Andrew Jarecki's new documentary is Capturing the Friedmans. It's about a seemingly normal Long Island, New York family. At Thanksgiving dinner, police shatter the front door with a battering ram and arrest the father and son for allegations of pedophilia and child molestation.

Serbian student activist Srdja Popovic and writer and retired New York City firefighter Dennis Smith on this edition of Fresh Air. Srdja Popovic is one of the founders of the student nonviolent group which helped bring down Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. The group known as Otpor (the Serbian word for "resistance") had a clenched fist as their symbol, but they used humor and theatre to ridicule Milosevic and other government officials.

Journalists Jeffrey Goldberg and Ahmed Rashid on this edition of Fresh Air. Jeffrey Goldberg is a staff writer for the New Yorker.

Writer and director Terry Gilliam and British actor Simon Russell Beale on this edition of Fresh Air. Terry Gilliam's new film is Lost in La Mancha. It's a documentary about Gilliam's failed attempt to adapt the story of Don Quixote to the screen. The film Gilliam was supposed to make was titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, starring Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis and Jean Rochefort.

Mosquito expert Andrew Spielman and actor Jonathan Pryce on this edition of Fresh Air. Spielman is one of the world's leading experts on mosquitoes. He's just co-written a book, Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe. He answers why mosquito bites itch and how the mosquito transmits deadly diseases. Spielman is a professor at Harvard University. Stage and screen actor Jonathan Pryce plays Gustav Mahler in the new film Bride of the Wind.

White House Correspondent for The Washington Post Dana Milbank on this Fresh Air. He covered the recent presidential campaign and the aftermath. He's written a new book about it, Smashmouth: Two years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush.

Staff writer and film critic for The New Yorker David Denby, and artist, photographer, and writer Rosemond Purcell on this edition of Fresh Air. Denby's new book, American Sucker, is a memoir about his brief obsession with the stock market during the height of irrational exuberance in 2000-2001. Rosemond Purcell has been called the "doyenne of decay" by sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay.

Psychologist Daniel Schacter and journalist Michela Wrong on this edition of Fresh Air. Schacter is the author of the new book The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers. The book looks at memory loss and age, arguing that gaps in memory are normal if not necessary to a sharp mind. He's a professor of psychology at Harvard University. Wrong is the author of the new book In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo.

Author James Reston, Jr. and film director Jules Dassin on this edition of Fresh Air. James Reston, Jr.'s new book is Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade. It's the story of the battle for the Holy Land in the late 12th century. It begins as a dual biography of Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt, Syria, Arabia and Mesopotamia, and Richard I, King of England, known as the Lionheart. The two men led the battling Islamic and Christian armies.

Hear journalist Laura Rozen, food and wine columnist Russ Parsons, and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead on this edition of Fresh Air. Laura Rozen reports on national security and foreign policy from Washington, D.C., as a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and a contributor to the Washington Monthly, the Boston Globe, The Economist, the Forward, USA Today, Wired, and other publications.

Working cop and writer Richard Rosenthal and jazz saxophonist James Carter on this edition of Fresh Air. For twenty years, Rosenthal was a detective for the New York Police Department where he dealt with homicide, narcotics, and armed robbery. Now he is the chief of Police in a small village on Cape Cod. He'll talk about the differences between the two kinds of police work. Rosenthal is the author of two books about police work called Sky Cops and K-9 Cops.

Journalist Matthew Brzezinski and remembering Timothy White, the editor-in-chief of Billboard Magazine on this edition of Fresh Air. Matthew Brzezinski wrote about the global narcotics industry in the June 23, 2002 issue of The New York Times Magazine. His cover story is "Heroin: The Sleek New Business Model for the Ultimate Global Product". Timothy White, the editor in chief of Billboard Magazine died Thursday at the age of 50. He was in his office at the time.

Hear presidential historian Robert Dallek and rock critic Ken Tucker on this edition of Fresh Air. Dallek's new book is Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. He writes about two ambitious men who were very different in some ways but very similar in others, describing the two as "self-serving characters with grandiose dreams of recasting world affairs". Dallek is also the best-selling author of An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy.

Novelist Francine Prose and singer and guitarist Alex Chilton on this edition of Fresh Air. Prose's new book Blue Angel echoes the title of the film classic.