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National Guard Lieutenant Paul Rieckhoff on this edition of Fresh Air. He is the founder and executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (formerly Operation Truth). Their website is www.optruth.org. One of the group's aims is to see that troops in active duty and veterans are properly provided for. He has written a memoir about his tour in Iraq, Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington.

Geneticist Francis Collins and linguist Geoff Nunberg, on this edition of Fresh Air.Francis Collins is director of the National Human Genome Research Project. Previously, as head of the National Genome Project, he helped decode the human genome. Collins is also an evangelical Christian, and author of the book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.

Record producer Joe Boyd and book critic Maureen Corrigan, on this edition of Fresh Air. Joe Boyd produced Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Richard and Linda Thompson, REM, and many more. He has a new memoir, called White Bicycles: Making Music in the Sixties. Then, Maureen Corrigan reviews Grotesque, the new crime novel from celebrated Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino.

Journalists Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman, on this edition of Fresh Air. They've won a George Polk Award for their series "Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight" in the Hartford Courant about the military's flawed mental health system.

Actor and Director Clint Eastwood, actor Ben Affleck, TV critic David Bianculli, and film critic David Edelstein, on this edition of Fresh Air.

Late musician Joe Hunter and former Vice President Al Gore, on this edition of Fresh Air. We remember musician Joe Hunter with a rebroadcast of his 2002 interview.

Singer, guitarist, and author Alex Kapranos and rock historian Ed Ward, on this edition of Fresh Air. Alex Kapranos is the frontman for the indie rock quartet Franz Ferdinand which is from Glasgow.

Writer Stefan Kanfer and journalist Jody Rosen, on this edition of Fresh Air. Kanfer's new book is Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America.

Rhythm and blues legend Smokey Robinson and the great songwriting trio Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Edward Holland on this edition of Fresh Air. Robinson has a new album called Timeless Love. Robinson sings hits from the American songbook, including "I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Baby)", "Night and Day", and "More Than You Know." William "Smokey" Robinson recorded dozens of top 40 hits for the Motown label as a solo artist and with The Miracles.

Actor Luke Wilson and director/choreographer Susan Stroman on this edition of Fresh Air. Luke Wilson appears in the film The Family Stone. It's about the annual holiday gathering of a New England family.

Critic at large John Powers, rock critic Ken Tucker, and TV critic David Bianculli, on this edition of Fresh Air. John Powers talks with Terry about the events that defined American culture this year.

The late actor Peter Boyle and historian Robert Satloff, on this edition of Fresh Air. Robert Satloff is the author of the new book Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands.

Rhode Island Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee and linguist Geoff Nunberg, on this edition of Fresh Air. Lincoln Chafee is serving out his term after being ousted by Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse in the mid-term elections. Then, Geoff Nunberg considers some of the words that made headlines this past year and were part of the zeitgeist.

Ben Karlin, executive producer of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, on this edition of Fresh Air. It was recently announced that Ben Karlin will be leaving both shows on cable channel Comedy Central at the end of this month.

Author Michael Wex and film critic David Edelstein, on this edition of Fresh Air. Michael Wex is the author of Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods which has just been published in paperback. Wex explores the history and culture of Yiddish: its complaints, curses and codes. Wex is a novelist, lecturer, and translator (his translations include a Yiddish version of The Threepenny Opera).

Election reform expert Dan Seligson, NAACP officers Marvin "Doc" Cheatham and Reverend Nelson B. Rivers, III, and musician, composer, and bandleader Don Byron on this edition of Fresh Air. Dan Seligson is the editor of www.electionline.org, a nonpartisan and non-advocacy organization that tracks and analyzes election reform issues. The website is a venture of the Election Reform Information Project. Then, NAACP officers Marvin "Doc" Cheatham and Reverend Nelson B. Rivers, III.

Actor Ben Affleck and Jazz guitar players Bucky and John Pizzarelli, on this edition of Fresh Air. Ben Affleck is currently starring in the new film, Hollywoodland as George Reeves, the actor who played Superman in the original TV series. The film is about the real-life, unsolved murder of Reeves. Affleck also co-wrote Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon, and their screenplay won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

Actor James Woods on this edition of Fresh Air. He's currently starring in the new CBS drama Shark playing the ruthless super-lawyer Sebastian Stark. Woods' films include Salvador, Ghosts of Mississippi, The Onion Field, Once Upon a Time in America, Nixon, and Casino. Then, TV critic David Bianculli reviews the new drama series Brothers & Sisters which airs on Sunday night in the time slot previously occupied by Grey's Anatomy.

Journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran and actor Ed Harris, on this edition of Fresh Air. Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the former Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post. His new book about the Green Zone in Baghdad during the first year of the U.S. occupation is Imperial Life in the Emerald City. Then, Ed Harris, who plays Ludwig van Beethoven in the new film Copying Beethoven.

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.