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Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews two new albums of Handel arias by opera singers Renee Fleming and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (on the Universal and Avie labels).

Music critic Milo Miles tells us about a New York group of hip-hop DJs known as the X-Ecutioners. Their new CD is called Revolutions.

Milo Miles reviews the new album from Carlos Guitarlos, Straight from the Heart.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Say You Will, the new CD by Fleetwood Mac, their first collection of new material in eight years. It's also without Christine McVie.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews the long-awaited reissue of trombonist Rod Levitt's octet's first album: The Dynamic Sound Patterns of The Rod Levitt Orchestra.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new mysteries: Soul Circus by George P. Pelecanos (Little, Brown), and The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell (The new Press).

National security expert Loch Johnson. Hes written several books about intelligence and the trade-off of personal freedom, including Bombs, Bugs, Drugs and Thugs: Intelligence and Americas Quest for Security. Johnson is a professor of political science at the University of Georgia. He has served on several US Senate committees on Intelligence.

Writer and executive producer of Sex and the City, Michael Patrick King. The show was just nominated for five Emmys including Outstanding Comedy Series, and Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series. He has also written for the television series, Murphy Brown and acted as a consultant for the hit series, Will and Grace.

Novelist Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay and now lives in Canada. His new novel is Family Matters. The book is set in 1990s Bombay and is about an elderly professor with Parkinson's disease who is forced to move into the crowded apartment of his daughter and her family. Mistry is also the author of A Fine Balance and Such a Long Journey which were both short-listed for the Booker Prize.

Hes touring the country promoting his new film, The Bourne Identity, a thriller about a man with amnesia flushed out of the Mediterranean sea, riddled with bullet holes. Damon has been in many hit films, including The Talented Mr Ripley, Saving Private Ryan and Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with close friend Ben Affleck.