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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).

SIMON/THREE STOOGES: SCOTT TALKS WITH LAWYER BELA LUGOSI JR. --- WHO ARGUED A CASE INVOLVING THE HEIRS OF THE THREE STOOGES AND WHO OWNS THE RIGHTS TO THE COMEDY TEAM'S MERCHANDIZING REVENUES.

WAS IT REALLY A STAR THAT DREW THREE WISE MEN TO BETHLEHEM ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS. MAYBE NOT, A MODERN-DAY ASTRONOMER TELLS SCOTT. AND WE HAVE A READING FROM T.S. ELIOT'S "JOURNEY OF THE MAGI."

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).

SCOTT REVIEWS THE YEAR'S TOP STORIES THROUGH ESSAY AND SOUND.

Linda talks with Washington Post reporter Christine Spolar who is several miles north of the Sava River in Croatia. The bridge over the river, built by U.S. Army engineers from the 502nd company, is now carrying hundreds of trucks per day from Croatia into Bosnia.

With COVID-19 cases spiking in Michigan and vaccinations stalled, some businesses are asking customers to show proof of vaccination. But there are unvaccinated residents who call this discrimination.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with housing attorney Lee Camp about the new eviction moratorium the CDC issued now that the previous moratorium has expired.

SIMON/PUNS: SCOTT SIMON FRACTURES THE LANGUAGE WITH NORMAN GILBERT IN TORONTO, WHOSE PUN-LOVING GROUP JUST RELEASED 1995'S BEST PUNS.