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ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING: Here we are at the crossroads of democracy. No, not Baghdad, but Lancaster, California, U.S.A., a small, but fast-growing, city 70 miles north of Los Angeles, a city where families have come to raise their kids in sprawling subdivisions, and send them to public ...
... don't particularly think it should be a military investigation. We need to find out exactly what happened, for sure. But we also have to start looking to the future. We want to make sure that any weapons of mass destruction that are there are found and protected. And they ...
... after which we will or will not go to war -- that this is still weeks away, maybe even a couple months away. JIM LEHRER: Mr. Taylor, help us understand what the term "no smoking gun" means. How do you interpret that, when you heard Hans Blix say that? TERENCE TAYLOR ...
... former inspector yourself what does Hans Blix and the inspectors on the ground -- what do they have to bring to the table in order to start the change the minds of allies to go along with the US or to stop this process cold? TERENCE TAYLOR: Well, I don't ...
ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING: Our days of tension and fear started here on that shattering September morning, and then just seemed to eddy out into our daily lives. There has been no rest, no respite. There was anthrax in the mailbox, and a bombing in Bali, snipers in the Washington, D ...
... to be any tendency to wait for that and there's nothing that legally obliges the U.S. to wait for that. MARGARET WARNER: Terence Taylor, do you read it the same way? TERNENCE TAYLOR: I do indeed and I think both London and Washington have made it clear that ...
MARGARET WARNER: Finally tonight, essayist Anne Taylor Fleming considers the pressures on high school seniors facing graduation. SPOKESPERSON: Welcome the members of the class of 2002 as they begin their graduation ceremony. (Applause) ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING: Well, it's that time of year again: Graduation. From the beauteous, well-endowed ...
JIM LEHRER: Are you personally... Are you personally a little afraid when you fly right now? ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING: I have to be honest, I am. JIM LEHRER: Go ahead. ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING: And avoiding it, Jim. Flat out avoiding it. I know a fair amount of people are. You ...
... to spend less... JOSEPH STIGLITZ: Exactly. And the fact that savings have been so low, a lot of people... reinforces that, saying, "look, we better start saving more." And when they start saving more, consumption goes down again. PAUL SOLMAN: Some economists thought that with the stock market swoon, a ...
... writer Roger Rosenblatt; Los Angeles author and writer Anne Taylor Fleming; and Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune. Welcome to you all, and let's start with you. Anne, let's start with you. What, if anything, will the year 2000 be remembered for? ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING: Well, I think ...
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