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In the first part of a series this week on the tortured politics of the Balkans, Noah speaks with Susan Woodward, author of Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War. She offers a primer on who's who in the former Yugoslavia.

fire stock market columnist Dan Dorfman, for refusing to tell editors the names of anonymous sources he used in his stories. Dorfman also does commentary for the NBC cable television network, CNBC, which says it has no plans to fire him.

with shortages of food and other basic necessities. The North Korean government urges citizens to remain loyal to the Marxist regime, and promises that the situation will get better.

to secure the release of 16 Muslim civilians seized earlier this week in a Serb-controlled suburb of Sarajevo. It's the first real test of the NATO mission in Bosnia.

difficult decision to pull down a Holocaust memorial because it was being vandalized.

Journalist and professor TODD GITLIN. His new book is a liberal's criticism of the "culture wars" that have destroyed the notion of common good in our country. It's called "The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars," (Metropolitan Books). GITLIN is also the author of "The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage." He teaches culture and communications , journalism, and sociology at New York University.

Internationally-renowned violinist ITZHAK PERLMAN. He celebrates his 50th birthday this year. He has several new releases, and a PBS special: "The Beethoven Triple Concert" two live concert recordings with pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim, and cellist Yo Yo Ma. And "In the Fiddler's House," featuring PERLMAN playing Klezmer music with four Klezmer bands. There's also a PBS Great Performance special on Klezmer music featuring PERLMAN. (It aired nationally November 27 at 10PM. Check local listings). Both CD's are on the EMI Classics label.

Writer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient ELIE WIESEL. He's the author of over 30 books. WIESEL, a survivor of the Holocaust, is known for his work which bears witness to that tragedy. WIESEL has just published the first volume of his memoirs, All Rivers Run to the Sea. In this book WIESEL writes about his childhood before the war, the horrors of Auschwitz, and his life after the war as a Paris based journalist, and as a New York writer, who struggled with the tragedies of the past, and the commitment to not letting the world forget what happened. The memoir is described by Publishers Weekly as "immensely moving, unforgettable... This haunting, impassioned book will make you cry yet, somehow, leave you renewed, with a cautious hope for humanity's future.

Linguist GEOFF NUNBERG on what it means to rename something.

Associate Counsel for Human Rights Watch, RICHARD DICKER. He'll discuss the situation in Nigeria. Last week poet, playwright and minority rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was sentenced to death and killed, along with eight other men. Saro-Wiwa lead the "Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People," a movement to help the impoverished Ogoni. They had been fighting for rights to petroleum reserves and compensation for environmental damage by Shell Oil Company, a lead oil operator in the country. The deaths have been condemned by many world leaders. (WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER INTERVIEW ON THIS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

Choreographer ELIZABETH STREB. Her troupe, "The Ringside Company" is currently on national tour, with "PopAction." Streb's works combine dance, athletics, daring and precision. Her dancers work on and around such props as scaffolding towers, trampolines, and walls. One reviewer described it as "dazzling speed, wit and daring." (THIS CONTINUES after the FLOATER).

Danny, in copy, recalls, the life of Robert Cardin, a nine year old who died this past week. Cardin was one of the first infants in this country to receive a heart transplant, in 1986. He wasn't even a month old at the time of the transplant. Then, we hear a commentary by Dr. Robert Verghese, about "percussion," a medical technique in which a physician thumps a patient's body as part of an examination.