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    Coping with Conflict: Israeli Author Amos Oz

    Jan 23, 2002 05:00 AM EDT

    ... him from the father. Of course, she is dead, but since when is being dead a problem for the Jewish mother defending their boy? ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: (Laughs) AMOS OZ: So it's about erasing the lines. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Do you see out of these ordinary people that you say have ...

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    Building Walls

    Jan 21, 2002 05:00 AM EDT

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: So with the future of the Palestinian Authority hanging very much in the balance, Shikaki said much will depend on what this man, Jibreel Rajoub, does. He's the head of the security force in the West Bank authorized by the Oslo agreement. He's close to Arafat ...

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    Security Breach

    Dec 28, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    ... is, as far as we know, the only evidence that we have that he was linked to al-Qaida. It's very early days--. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And it came from prisoners in Afghanistan and also on ships? MARC CHAMPION: Yes, some of these prisoners are being held on U.S ...

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    Poet Laureate: Billy Collins

    Dec 10, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Do you think that American poetry has gotten too difficult? BILLY COLLINS: Well, I think it's getting... I think it reached a high-water mark of difficulty probably in the '50s and '60s, but I think there's a lot of very good, plainspoken poetry today. There ...

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    Aftershocks in Egypt

    Nov 30, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    DR. ESSAM ELERIAN: Yes. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Wasn't that legal? DR. ESSAM ELERIAN: In the minds of the government, it's illegal, of course. Even independent candidates who are affiliated to Muslim brotherhood or who are believed to be Muslim brotherhood are prevented from providing and making applicants. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH ...

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    Man of Letters: Egyptian Playwright Ali Salem

    Nov 27, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The great novelist. ALI SALEM: The great novelist. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Nobel prize- winning. ALI SALEM: And all the time we think that it's our battle. No, it's the world's battle. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: I think it's hard sometimes for Americans to understand Egypt. Some people ...

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    Egypt's Reaction: The U.S. and the War Against Terrorism

    Nov 23, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Dia'a Rashwan has studied Egypt's radical Islamic movements for two decades at the "al-Ahram" think tank. He said the men in Imbaba may fear they could be targeted next. DIA'A RASHWAN: You could have, in my mind, many... a lot of new groups which ...

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    Poetry as Prophecy

    Oct 26, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: In good times and bad, San Franciscans are accustomed to hearing from the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. For a half century, he has walked the streets of his beloved North Beach neighborhood and produced volumes of verse about matters mundane and monumental. He was the city's first official ...

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    Taking Sides

    Oct 19, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... got called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which is intended explicitly to address criminal and terrorist and other problems that those countries share in common. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And that's Russia, China and what other countries? DOUGLAS PAAL: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And Ken Lieberthal, do you think ...

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    Afghan Alternatives

    Oct 09, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... that there needs to be something thought of right now politically before the grand assembly or the traditional Loya Jirga would be in place. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Now there is a U.N. representative in Afghanistan. Is that right? HARON AMIN: Yes.ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And what role should that person be ...