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South African journalists Howard Barrell and Mondli Makhanya and remembering mouth organist Larry Adler on this edition of Fresh Air.

Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid and actor Mark Ruffalo on this edition of Fresh Air. Rashid will comment on today's assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The attack occurred at a political rally near the capital of Islamabad. News reports indicate that the attacker used a combination of gunfire and a suicide bombing. At least 14 people have died in the assault. Bhutto was pronounced dead at a hospital in Rawalpindi at 6:16 pm. Rashid has published several bestselling novels and also writes for the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Daily Telegraph (London), and other publications. He was born in Lahore and is based in Pakistan.

In 1945 the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific. Nearly 900 men ended up in the water, but after four days fighting hypothermia, dehydration, and sharks, only 317 crewmen survived.

Stand up comics Ahmed Ahmed and Maz Jobrani and Pakistani dancer Sheema Kermani on this edition of Fresh Air. Ahmed is Egyptian-American, and Jobrani is Iranian-American. They've changed their routines since September 11th, cracking jokes about attending flight school and the like. Both have had small parts as terrorists in action films. Jobrani was in a Chuck Norris film and Ahmed was Terrorist #4 in Executive Decision. They live in Los Angeles.

Hear British investigative journalists Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark on this edition of Fresh Air. Their new book is Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons. It's about Pakistan's clandestine nuclear network and America's role in condoning and aiding Pakistan's nuclear ambitions.

In 1945 the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific.

Journalist Robert Kaplan and Peter W. Galbraith, former U.S. amassador to Croatia, on this edition of Fresh Air. Robert Kaplan is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. His story in the April edition of magazine is "A Tale of Two Colonies." Kaplan traveled to Yemen and Eritrea to investigate how the war on terrorism is forcing the U.S. to be involved with each. Yemen is believed to have the largest Al-Qaeda presence outside of the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.

Actress Tracey Ullman, and authors Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor on this edition of Fresh Air. Ullman plays Frenchy, a manicurist married to an ex-con dishwasher in Woody Allen's new comedy Small Time Crooks. She also worked with Allen on two of his previous films Bullets Over Broadway and Everyone Says I Love You. Ullman is the star of her own shows, HBO's Tracey Takes On, and The Tracey Ullman Show.

New York Times reporters David Barstow and Don Van Natta, Jr., on this edition of Fresh Air. They went to Florida following the closest presidential election in history. During a six-month investigation, the two journalists found "under intense pressure from the Republicans, Florida officials accepted hundreds of overseas absentee ballots that failed to comply with state election laws."

Artistic director for the Houston Ballet, Ben Stevenson, dancer Lauren Anderson, and Dr. Zahi Hawass on this edition of Fresh Air. Stevenson has been with the ballet for over 25 years, turning it into a premiere dance company. The New York Times' dance critic said of Stevenson, "[he] is one of the most original figures in the development of regional ballet in America."

Hear journalist Linda Greenhouse and rock historian Ed Ward on this edition of Fresh Air. Greenhouse, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, will tell us about the current Supreme Court, including issues facing the court and cases coming up in the future. She's been covering the court since 1978. Then, rock historian Ed Ward profiles songwriter Doc Pomus (1925-1991). Born Jerome Solon Felder, he wrote hits for Ray Charles and Elvis Presley.

Hear singer/songwriter Nellie McKay and critic-at-large John Powers, on this edition of Fresh Air. Nellie McKay joins us for a concert and conversation. Her new album is called Obligatory Villagers. It's got jazz and cabaret influences, with sassy lyrics that cover the areas of feminism and zombies.

Hear actor, producer, writer, and director George Clooney, historian Robert Satloff, rock critic Ken Tucker, and film critic David Edelstein on this edition of Fresh Air. Robert Satloff is the author of the book Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands. It's about the Arabs who protected or aided Jews in North Africa - where Nazi Germany, Vichy France, and fascist Italy exported anti-Semitic policies during World War II.

Journalists Leonard Downie, Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser on this edition of Fresh Air. Leonard Downie, Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser work for The Washington Post.

Director of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Liz Thompson and Film Forum Director Bruce Goldstein on this edition of Fresh Air. The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council brought art, dance, and performance to World Trade Center Plaza. They had offices in WTC building five; a number of their artists had studio space in tower one. One of their artists, sculptor Michael Richards, was killed in the attack. Liz Thompson was at a meeting in tower one when the attack took place.

Hear business columnist Gretchen Morgenson, TV producer Adam Fierro, intelligence expert (retired) Colonel Stuart Herrington, and human-rights advocate David Danzig on this edition of Fresh Air. Morgenson has covered the financial markets for The New York Times since 1988. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her "trenchant and incisive" coverage of Wall Street. She is also assistant business and financial editor for the Times.

London Bureau Chief for the Boston Globe Charles Sennott on this edition of Fresh Air. Sennott covered the war in Iraq, but not as an embedded reporter. He traveled independently with a group of journalists. Sennott recently returned to Iraq.

Investigative reporter Lowell Bergman on this archive edition of Fresh Air. His work exposing the tobacco industry became the hit film The Insider. He was portrayed by Al Pacino. Bergman is a contributor to The New York Times. Last year, he produced a PBS Frontline documentary called Blackout. The documentary aired last year and reveals the story behind California's energy crisis and rolling blackouts.

Rock musician Wayne Kramer and linguist Geoff Nunberg on this edition of Fresh Air. Guitarist, singer, songwriter Wayne Kramer founded the MC5, a Detroit band considered to be the prototype for punk rock, in the late 1960s. By 1972, the band had burned out. In between then and now, Kramer did time in jail for drugs, teamed up with Don and David Was to found the group Was (Not Was), and began a solo career. His new solo album is Adult World.

Novelist Richard Price is the author of the bestselling novels, Clockers about life in the inner city world of drug dealing (which was made into a film) and Freedomland which was inspired by the real life incident in which a woman alleged a black man carjacked her and took her two children. Price's new book Samaritan is about a man who returns to the New Jersey town where he was raised and to teaching, and the bad consequences of his good intentions.