and farber in the uk and farber, inc., in the united states. let's welcome phillip and chloe >> hi there, phillip. >> hi, chloe >> so, this play, it's been quite a journey. we're talking 3 1/2 years, maybe nearly 50 different drafts and 5 workshops? . >> five workshops, yes. >> so, looking back at the journey, how has it been for you and has it come out as you expected it would? . >> what's interesting is if you work on a play this long, normally there are times that it becomes redundant and you get a little bored with the piece. it's only natural. it's pushing 4 years now. this one was interesting in that it never got boring or ever felt redundant and each thing that we did over these almost 4 years, whether it was going off to sundance or to writer's retreat they have in sheritan, wyoming -- is that where you went? . >> that was in utah and la as well, down there at the institute. >> they have another writer's retreat in sheritan, wyoming, so i spent time out there and we workshoped this in san francisco, we have done readings at the asia soc

cost confirm really was murdered in the second world war by the dutch sis he confronted farber and asked him if he had any remorse for bill responded with sneers and mockery that was four years ago neighbors say farber's know how spell and i'm close to death it's a race against time for justice now you say well he's eighty nine and people say sometimes say well why put him in jail now but one you know his victims never lifted and the second was you know had never felt sorry for these these deeds so if you go to munich you try to talk your way just ignorant you know just don't want to talk at all if we don't put him in jail before he dies you know it will always hang as a dark cloud a ball you know why didn't you put your fairy last real cruel not since where he belongs last month germany convicted ukrainian american. on demjanjuk of nazi war crimes or much weaker evidence germany has one rule for its people says costin's and another for foreigners about them younger but he's from russia and you know they don't mind kicking him around as well this isn't germans or even foreign to. a germa

had any remorse for bill responded with sneers and mockery that was four years ago neighbors say farber's know how spell and and close to death it's a race against time for justice now you say well he's a king. and it was they sometimes say well why put him in jail now but you know his victims know. and the second of this you know had to feel sorry for these deeds so if you go to munich you know that you just. don't want to talk at all if we don't put him in jail before he does it will always hang as a dark cloud. you know why didn't you put your. real cruel. last month germany convicted ukrainian american john demjanjuk of nazi war crimes much weaker evidence germany has one rule for its people says cost guns and another for foreigners. but he's from russia you know they don't mind kicking him around as well this isn't germans or even. a german national they're for. the making of final push to put him behind bars this week they applied to have him serve sentence in germany they also for the international community to help people but he could be going to other countries must put diplomati

we have farber garcia, director of the form of public health. maybe just wave. that is very nice, but let's hold our applause. let's just hold our applause so we can get through the business of tonight. jim, deputy director of human resources. fred blackwell, director of redevelopment agency. we have jeff go down, sfpd. sonali bose, sfmta. bob sitting in for phil ginsburg from iraq and park -- from rec adn park. -- rec and park. next up, we have greg wagner, who is going to be via a little bit on the budget. you can use that microphone right there. >> thank you very much, supervisor cohen. i wanted to set the stage by walking briefly through an overview of what our budget problem is, to set the stage for the conversation we are going to have and give a little bit of background on why we are all here tonight and what the challenges are that are facing us collectively over the next three months as we need to balance our budget. so as you know, the city charter requires us to have a balanced budget every year. unlike the federal government, we cannot borrow money a

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i would have to say the first influence was barry farber who was a radio interviewer on a new york station. he had this wonderful southern style of speech and very informed and interesting. you know, he would talk about the fact that the soviet union and germany invaded poland at the same time. i never heard. i realized that the communists and nazis had been allies, and you didn't get that from major media and what was in the atmosphere, so i found that enlightning, so that made me more interested in communist many >> where did you go to school? >> public schools in new jersey and then columbia university. >> and law? >> from george washington. >> was there a time that you decided i want to be a writer, columnist, a lawyer -- >> i had a fantasy to become a columnist in college, and my first job out of college was national review magazine, and there i was, 22, and wanting to be a pundit. and i thought you can't exactly offer yourself to the world when your 22 or 23 and say, you know, i'm going to tell people what i think about the world because you don't know anything. so i decided to go to