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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Welcome, Richard. RICHARD RODRIGUEZ: Thank you. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Three weeks after the attacks, what are you thinking, hearing, seeing? RICHARD RODRIGUEZ: Well, I'm listening a lot. At some level, you know, it's so hard to take the temperature of a country. But one has to take ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Roger, I'm going to come back to the other essayists about what they're hearing from people, but Clarence, before I do, Clarence Page, how do you see what's changed? In one of your columns this week you wrote about a terrific need for patience that ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Afghanistan is emerging as a likely first target of American retaliation for this week's terrorist attacks. The country's vast landscape of mountains, deserts, and isolated villages has served as a base of operations for Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of several assaults on the United ...
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