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Journalist Patrick Graham has spent the past year living amongst Sunni Iraqis involved in the insurgence against the American military presence. He explains why he thinks the resistance might actually be quite well-organized, and NOT just a few renegade supporters of Saddam Hussein or Al-Qaeda. Christopher Mason follows the Sotheby’s-Christie’s auction house scandal from London and Paris to New York and Palm Beach - the world's two leading auction houses conspired to fix prices in order to cheat their clients out of millions of dollars. Then, a discussion with Joan Sullivan, principal of the Bronx Academy of Letters, an innovative new public school. Also on the show are Matthew Sharpe, BAL’s writer-in-residence, and ninth-grade student Devon Negron. And David Leavitt shares his new novel, The Body of Jonah Boyd.