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Gambian attorney Fatou Bensouda, Kenya political activist Wangari Maathai, and book critic Maureen Corrigan, on this edition of Fresh Air. Fatou Bensouda is the deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (the ICC). The court's first case concerns crimes involving child soldiers. The ICC was set up as a court of last resort to deal with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Bensouda has been a prosecutor for 19 years.

Playwright and film maker Neil Labute and author William Cope Moyers on this edition of Fresh Air. He's earned a reputation for writing characters who are selfish, mean, misanthropic, and misogynistic. His films include In the Company of Men and Your Friends & Neighbors. His plays include The Mercy Seat, Some Girls, and Fat Pig.

Professor and author Tanya Erzen and Exodus President Alan Chambers on this edition of Fresh Air. Tanya Erzen is Assistant Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. She is the author of the new book Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement. It's about New Hope Ministry, a residential program for evangelical Christian men in the San Francisco Bay area who are "struggling with homosexuality".

Former presidential cabinet member James A. Baker III and Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern on this edition of Fresh Air. Baker's new memoir is Work Hard, Study...and Keep Out of Politics!: Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Public Life.

Journalist Michael Weisskopf and professor and author Philip Jenkins on this edition of Fresh Air. Weisskopf is the senior correspondent for the Washington, D.C. bureau of Time. In 2003, while on assignment in Baghdad, he threw a live Iraqi grenade from the back of an open Humvee. He saved himself, four soldiers, and Time's photographer, but he lost his hand.

Reporters Jeff Whelan and Josh Margolin, as well as former New Jersey governor James "Jim" McGreevey, on this edition of Fresh Air. Reporters Jeff Whelan and Josh Margolin have been covering Jim McGreevey for the Newark Star-Ledger. The two journalists won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for breaking the McGreevey story.

New York Times columnist Frank Rich on this edition of Fresh Air. His new book is The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina. It's about the endless spin that comes out of the Bush administration. Rich has been with the Times since 1980, when he was named Chief Theater Critic. His nickname was "The Butcher of Broadway." In 1994, Rich became an Op-Ed columnist for the paper. His pieces focus on politics and culture.

Filmmaker Kirby Dick, MPAA Ratings Board Chair Joan Graves, and actor Jeremy Sisto, on this edition of Fresh Air. Kirby Dick's new documentary is This Film is Not Yet Rated. It's a look into the secretive world of the MPAA film ratings system. Dick considers the highly secretive process of rating films G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17. MPAA board members are anonymous, deliberations are private, and standards are seemingly arbitrary.

Writer Jonathan Franzen and musician Gerald Wilson on this edition of Fresh Air. Franzen's new book is called The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History. Franzen's massive 2001 bestseller The Corrections was in part based on his own life, his new book is a memoir. Franzen's other books include The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, and How to be Alone. Then, trumpeter, composer, and arranger Gerald Wilson, whose 88th birthday was Monday, September 4th.

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.

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.

Singer and musician David Johansen on this edition of Fresh Air. David Johansen was the lead singer for the 70's pre-punk punk rock band New York Dolls. The band has recently reunited and has a new CD "One Day it Will Please Us to Remember Even This".

Professor and author Daniel Byman on this edition of Fresh Air. His new book is Deadly Connections: States That Sponsor Terrorism. He explores the symbiotic relationship between terrorist organizations and their state sponsors. Byman is associate professor in Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program and Center for Peace and Security Studies.

Arab political expert Julia Choucair on this edition of Fresh Air. She is an Associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research is on political reform in the Arab world. She's the Deputy Editor of the Carnegie's e-monthly, the Arab Reform Bulletin. Choucair worked at several other think tanks before joining Carnegie. She was also a volunteer in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.

Middle East expert Vali Nasr and writer Jeffrey Goldberg on this edition of Fresh Air. His new book is The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future. Nasr is the Senior Adjunct Fellow on the Middle East at the Council on foreign Relations. He is also professor of Middle East and south Asia Politics and associate Chair of research at the Department of National Security at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Reporter Rebecca Clarren, editor Katherine Spillar, and author Ann Fessler on this edition of Fresh Air. In the latest issue of Ms. Magazine, Clarren writes about the sweatshops of the Northern Mariana Islands in her cover article "Paradise Lost." While the Marianas are a U.S. territory, they are exempt from the usual U.S. laws regulating minimum wage, tariffs, quotas and immigration. Yet clothing sewn in the sweatshops bears the "made in the USA" label.

Journalist Michelle Goldberg on this edition of Fresh Air. Goldberg is a senior writer for the online magazine Salon, and covers the Christian Right. Her new book is Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. She writes that Christian nationalists believe that the Bible is the absolutely and literally true and they want to see the nation governed by that truth. She writes that the ultimate goal of Christian nationalist leaders isn't fairness. It's dominion.

Neurosurgeon Katrina Firlik and historian Douglas Brinkley on this edition of Fresh Air. Katrina Kirlik's new book is Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside. She is now a private practitioner in Greenwich, Connecticut, and a clinical assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine. She is also the daughter of a surgeon. Historian Douglas Brinkley's new book about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath is The Great Deluge.

Journalist Mark Bowden on this edition of Fresh Air. Bowden is the author of the best seller Black Hawk Down. His new book, Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam examines the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-80 when student militants took over the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held them for 444 days. This past week marked the 26th anniversary of the failed rescue attempt of the hostages.

Journalist Pete Earley and psychiatrist Dr. E. Fuller Torrey on this edition of Fresh Air. Pete Earley's new book is Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness. It's about his struggle to get his bi-polar son properly diagnosed and treated. In his efforts to help his son, he investigated the mental health system. One of the things he found is that our jails and prisons have become our new state asylums.