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    Closing Thoughts: After 9/11

    Oct 02, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    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 ...

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    Closing Thoughts

    Sep 16, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    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 ...

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    The Taliban

    Sep 15, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    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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    Congressional Action

    Sep 14, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    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 ...

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    Airport Security

    Sep 12, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    Structural Questions

    Sep 11, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... 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 ...

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    A Feast for the Eyes: Wayne Thiebaud

    Sep 03, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    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 ...

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    Sweet Art: Wayne Thiebaud

    Sep 03, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    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 ...

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    Delicious Revolution

    Aug 29, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Waters says 85% of good cooking is in the shopping. I asked her where the green beans came from. ALICE WATERS: I think that they probably came from a wonderful farm called "Dirty Girl," down towards Half Moon Bay. It's a little bit of a cooler climate ...

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    Three Strikes

    Aug 23, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    A liberal think tank released a report today that casts doubts on California's three-strike mandatory sentencing law. After a Spencer Michels background report, Elizabeth Farnsworth discusses the impact of the law with Marc Mauer and Gordon Spencer.