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 ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Senator Graham, how is it unlike the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which many people who voted for it later came to believe was too general? I notice there is the word harbored - it authorizes force not only against nations or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the ...
... what happened today enough? ISAAC YEFFET: They wouldn't be able to go based on the FAA procedures with a knife to the aircraft. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: I'm sorry, Mr. Yeffet; I'm asking Mr. Douglas Laird now. ISAAC YEFFET: Oh, I'm sorry. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: That's okay. DOUGLAS ...
... as Ron mentioned, and they were really designed well. But unfortunately they could not tolerate that intense fire due to the jet fuel perhaps. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Could any building designed in the future in a different way-- I'm really asking what needs to be done in the future-- have ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And the cityscapes, you've been painting them for a long time. Do you see them changing? And if so, how? WAYNE THIEBAUD: I think just setting different problems because you don't want to repeat yourself. You try if you're working on too many parallel streets ...
... day. So there's a kind of aliveness about the food. And that's... That's very important. It makes food sort of irresistible. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Irresistible food is by its very nature political in Waters' view. ALICE WATERS: I have to get some of that. VENDOR: Okay. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Let me interrupt you there. What about the charge in your report that there is disproportionate sentencing? One of the examples given is of a man who had two prior convictions for residential burglary, but who was then sentenced for 25 to life for stealing a pair of ...
Explaining the demise of the Industry Standard, the latest victim of the dotcom collapse.
Elizabeth Farnsworth talks with author and poet Jimmy Santiago Baca about two new books, "Healing Earthquakes" and "A Place to Stand."
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