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2: The Tenth edition of "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary," is out. Terry talks about pronunciation with one of the book's Associate Editors, BRIAN SIETSEMA ("seat-SEE-ma").

Columnist RAMI KHOURI (pronounced "Koor-ee"). Khouri, a Palestinian Jordanian, is the former editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times newspaper and is now columnist there.

Final portion of MIKAL GILMORE interview.

Literary Spy Master, JOHN LE CARRE (pronounced "Luh Karay"). An author at the pinnacle of the espionage genre, LE CARRE has written such classics as "Smiley's People", "Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Spy", and "The Russia House". LE CARRE has shifted his gaze to the Gulf War and international arms dealers in his new novel "The Night Manager" (Alfred A.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "The Passion of Michel Foucault," by James Miller, a biography of the French philosopher.

Film director, SYDNEY POLLACK. He has been making movies for almost thirty years including "The Way We Were", "Three Days of the Condor" and "Tootsie". Pollack's new film is "The Firm". (REBROADCAST from December 11,

Maureen Corrigan reviews "Peerless Flats," the new novel by Esther Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud.

Writer EDWARD BUNKER. Bunker wrote the crime fiction classic "No Beast So Fierce," which first came out in 1973, about a former criminal trying to go straight. The book has been out of print since 1986, and has just been reissued. It was the basis of the film Straight Time, which starred Dustin Hoffman. Bunker spent almost 20 years in jail himself, and used his experiences as the basis of his book. He's also written 2 other novels, many essays, and screenplays for Straight Time and The Runaway Train

2: Regional Director of four women's clinics in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pennyslvania, and Omaha, Nebraska, DIANE STRAUSS. Three of her clinics were the target of Operation Rescue's protests last week. Before that, STRAUSS has been harrassed at home by the group. In 1987, one of STRAUSS's clinics was the first clinic to be targeted by Operation Rescue outside of Binghamton, New York where the group is based.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "Bone," the new first-novel by Fae Myenne Ng.

Austin singer/songwriter, performance artist, JO CAROL PIERCE. She won the "Songwriter of the Year" award at the 1993 Austin Music Awards. A tribute album of her songs performed by other singers, "Across the Great Divide," won the Album of the Year Award. She's originally from Lubbock, Texas -- where it seems anybody who wants to be somebody in the Texas music scene must be from. She's little known outside Texas, but has a cult following in Austin. PIERCE'S songs are quirky, and spiritual. Her song, "I Blame God," has been called, "a slice of metaphysical slapstick with the dark humor of a honky-tonk Dostoevski." PIERCE also wrote and performed the one-woman show, ""Bad Girls Upset About the Truth," told in story and song about her problems with men and Jesus.

2: Film director JIM SHERIDAN. An Academy Award nominee for Best Director of "My Left Foot," he directed, produced and co-authored the screenplay for the new film, "In the Name of the Father," starring Daniel Day-Lewis. It's based on Gerry Conlon's memoir of the same name.