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    High-Tech Casualty

    Aug 20, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... very rapidly and management very rapidly, and I think that was very similarly suffered by many other companies during the period of 1999-2000. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: But you were watching this all the time. You were charting the rise and fall of companies -- JOHN BATTELLE: Absolutely. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: -- but you ...

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    Conversation with Jimmy Santiago Baca

    Aug 09, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... evoke their emotions. For me, at least, I wanted to know how to say what was happening to them and I wanted to know.... ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Go ahead. Sorry. JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA: I just wanted to know... I wanted to name things. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Read a poem for us where ...

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    Remembering Eudora Welty

    Jul 24, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Mr. Bausch, what is her influence on writers? Give us some examples of people she's influenced a lot beside yourself. RICHARD BAUSCH: She's influenced... I think that her influence on American style is just pervasive. I mean, I've said to people for a long time ...

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    Author Louise Erdrich's "The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse"

    Jul 11, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: I happened to read one of your older novels over the weekend, and you have some characters in novels that go way back, that you have to make sure you know what they did in those novels so you're consistent. LOUISE ERDICH: Right. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: How do ...

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    Voices from Vietnam

    Jun 27, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... lily for a tongue. Now when huddled asleep together the farmers hear a rustly footfall as the leaf-man rises and stumbles to them." ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Balaban said he recognizes that a thread runs through all he has done since the war. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: From my reading of your poetry ...

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    Alan Cheuse's "Listening to the Page"

    Jun 26, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... anniversary of the publication of The Catcher in the Rye. And I think I'm going to reread some Saul Bellow this summer, also. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And what are you writing? ALAN CHEUSE: What am I writing? ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Besides the reviews? ALAN CHEUSE: I'm in the middle of ...

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    Mending Hearts

    Jun 07, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... the heart no cells of that sort have been identified yet. So certainly where the cells come from is an open question right now. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: I asked that question because I read that there was some prior research by the same people who did this study that showed cells ...

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    The Challenges of The President of Peru, Alejandro Toledo

    Jun 04, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Mr. Ambassador, do you agree with that, that it's more rags-to-riches than racial, his story? DENNIS JETT: I think that's right. I think you should remember that when Fujimori was first elected in 1990, he was elected because he was different. He wasn't ...

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    James Salter's Book "The Hunters"

    May 28, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: So would you read from this book, please? And set the scene for us. Tell people a little bit of the story. JAMES SALTER: Well, this is the flying story. As I say, it's not... It's not a technical story -- although there are things in it ...

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    Behind the Census Numbers

    May 28, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    A closer look at what the 2000 Census numbers tell us about demographic and social trends in America.