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WILLIAM TAUBMAN is a political science professor at Amherst College. He is a frequent visitor to Russia and is currently working on a biography of Nikita Krushchev. TAUBMAN talks to Terry about the status of the reform movementin Russia, the legacy of Communism and the mood of the Russian people.

CURTIS MAYFIELD. He's been called "the thinking man's soul man." He's known for his floating falsetto voice, gospel sound, and social commentary. He was with the group, "The Impressions" for 12 years recording such classics as "Gypsy Woman," "I'm so Proud," and "People Get Ready." After that he went solo. His score for "Superfly," was considered a musical breakthrough, and has inspired many of today's hip-hop performers. MAYFIELD was preparing for a comeback, with the release of "Return of Superfly," in 1990, when a freak stage accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. (REBROADCAST FROM 3

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A live concert with New Orleans songwriter, pianist and singer ALLEN TOUSSAINT. Tousaint has worked in different capacities-- as wither a session pianist, producer, or songwriter, with such artists as Paul Simon, Ringo Starr, and Elvis Costello. This year, Toussaint recorded "The Ultimate Session" with the New Orleans group Crescent City Gold, and "Rhythm Country and Blues," which received a Grammy Nomination.Currently. Toussaint is currently working on a project with songwriter/guitarist Michelle Shocked. (REBROADCAST FROM 1

Writer, actor, director HAROLD RAMIS. He's one of the most influential forces behind some of the biggest comedy hits of the late 70s and 80s. But his influence is not generally known by those outside the industry. (For that reason he's been called the "Clark Kent" of comedy. Also because he's "mild-mannered," "bespectacled," and he "looks as if he would be the first to duck under the table at the first sign of a food fight"). RAMIS wrote for "The National Lampoon Show," and "SCTV." He co-wrote as well as acted in the movies, "Animal House," "Stripes," "Ghostbusters," and others. He directed the new movie, "Groundhog Day," starring his old co-star Bill Murray.

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2: Playwright, NPR commentator, housecleaner and former elf to Santa, DAVID SEDARIS. He launched his radio commentator career with his "SantaLand Diaries," broadcast during NPR's "Morning Edition" in 1992. His humor has been described as a "caustic mix of J. D. Salinger and John Waters." Along with his sister, Amy Sedaris, he wrote the play "Stitches," which was described as a "macabre and hilarious social satire." Now he's making his literary debut, with a new collection of stories and essays, "Barrel Fever." (Little, Brown and Company) (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 6

Psychiatrist PETER D. KRAMER. Kramer has written "Listening to Prozac" (Viking Books): an examination of the larger issues behind drugs that reshape temperament. Prozac is the most widely prescribed antidepressant today, with some four and a half million users since its introduction in 1987. Kramer raises serious questions about this "miracle mood enhancer": are we headed into an age of cosmetic pharmacology? If a pill is not used to alter an illness, but rather personality, what then is "the self"? And what are the social ramifications for women, in light of the Valium and Lithium use of the 1960's

Journalist ERIK LARSON of the Wall Street Journal. LARSON has been on the show before to talk about polling, privacy and direct marketing and about how a gun goes from the manufacturer to the hands of a teenager. In fact he's written a new book, "Lethal Passage: How the Travels of a Single Handgun Expose the Roots of America's Gun Crisis," (Crown Publishers). Today Terry will talk again with LARSON about guns, about gun control laws, the NRA, etc. LARSON is also the author of "The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities."

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "Don''t Drink the Water," Woody Allen''s made-for-TV movie, which airs Sunday on ABC. REV. 2: Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Speechless," which stars Geena Davis and Michael Keaton in a story much like that of James Carville and Mary Matalin, though the movie script was written before the real life story.

2: Journalist YOUSEFF IBRAHIM, reporter at "The New York Times" since 1977. He has been the regional Middle East correspondent for the paper for seven years. IBRAHIM has won a George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club Award and the International Energy Economists Association Award for best coverage of energy affairs. He talks about the current situation in the Middle East.

Legendary musician and band-leader SUN RA died Sunday at the age 79; we pay tribute to his otherworldly brand of jazz with an excerpt from a concert he performed six years ago in Philadelphia.