Search results for

LIANE HANSEN

We hear letters sent by children to U.S. Army reservists n duty in Bosnia. 6:46 (total for 1. a

Liane Hansen speaks with NPR's Joanne Silberner about the assage by the House of limited health care legislation and it's prospects in he Senate.

In an exciting beginning to the season, the Mariners needed extra innings to beat the Chicago White Sox, and their star, Frank Thomas. Thomas connected on a two-run home run in the first inning, but after that, Seattle's own star, ace pitcher Randy Johnson settled in and struck out 14 White Sox batters.

Daniel talks with former FBI special agent Joe Connelly about the ongoing standoff with a militant anti-government group called the "Freemen" in Montana. Connelly says the FBI is doing the right thing by not provoking a confrontation with them.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports on Russian President Boris Yeltsin's plan for ending the war in Chechnya.

with three girls who have gone to work with their parents today. They speak with the Baltimore Police Commissioner Tom Frazier and his daughter Alexandra. Alexandra says she is impressed by his private bathroom and conference room. We also hear from a trader on the Chicago Stock Exchange -- George Martin and his daughter Annie, who got to take the EL, buy a newspaper and see her dad really busy trading stocks. Eva Mortimer-Maibeth is a 10-year who went to work with her mother Claire Mortimor who is a nurse practitioner at San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco.Eva was one of a hundred children who toured the hospital today.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with with Carl Cannon from the altimore Sun about the week's news, including passage of the line-item veto, he state of state's rights, the future of the "Contract with America" and some ports news -- a rising equine star named "Cigar" and a new name for Baltimore's ootball team: the Ravens.

Robert Siegel speaks with Donald Fraser who wrote arrangements of famous tunes from Disney movies which mimic a variety of classical music composers. Not just an academic challenge, the arrangements capture the spirit Mr. Fraser feels that Beethovenm might have brought to Whistle While You Work or Aaron Copeland might have developed the melody from the Ballad of Dave Crockett. Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach is a release from the Delos label. (8:00) (S

with Robert Reischauer, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, and currently a senior fellow of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institute. Reischauer talks about the real savings in this year's budget and how there are cuts in the deficit. He tells what the government is likely to do towards balancing the budget next year.