christopher steiner. the book is "automate this." we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) (cheers and applause) >> stephen: welcome black, everybody! my guest tonight is a pulitzer prize play wright. tony kushner. (cheers and applause) nice to see you again, thanks for coming on. all right everybody knows you. turn author of "the playwright of angels in america." you also wrote the screenplay to "munich" with stephen spielberg now you are the screen writeer for the knew movie "lincoln." (cheers and applause) were you daunted at all approaching a figure this iconic? someone so huge in our minds? someone we all think of as old. old uncle penny face? (laughter) >> never occurred to me to think of him as olds uncle penny face. it was scary. i didn't want to do it original because i didn't know that it was going to be possible. >> stephen: did spielberg have something on you? did he blackmail you? >> well, doris kearns goodwin who's been on the show. >> stephen: friend of the show. >> she was a very persuasive and lovely person and great writer and she tal

if you have been past alta project, you will see it on the steep slopes fronting steiner and clay streets. it tufts and mounds. by the description design not to mow. it does have somewhat of a water quotient but lower than regular turf. of course it is more maintenance-free. we don't have to do the mowing. we propose to put it on the non-usable areas, like at alta plaza we have steep slopes that are difficult to mow and are not really usable for park users because of the grade. you can also see it at cavello park. >> the puc is using it at sunset reservoir and the medians. i think a little at jefferson. >> there is some along the eddy of the jefferson street project. >> it looks like green uncut hair. >> but beautiful hair, wouldn't you say? >> denny, what part -- >> chia pet. >> what part of cavallo point. on the playground? >> the playground they actually mow but in between murray circle and the main office, then interspersed between some of the -- the hillsides area, there is no mow. >> in other words, we can't use it on a putting green? >> your ball won't go in the hole. >> it would c

and the list goes on we had come into from the israeli foreign ministry spokesperson and none the steiner says that even with such a high civilian death toll in gaza the operation see says can be called surgical israel did the most possible not to hurt the civilians what we did is we pinpointed our operation first to the terrorist leaders and to their army and ammunition but i do agree that they are once in a while there were civilian casualties has happened and we feel very badly about that but as you know this is not an easy operation no military operation is led by any international standard the collateral damage here is pretty minimal the amount of civilians who died it's hard to say it this way it sounds very bad but it could have been much much worse if we weren't so surgical and if i have highlights were not given instructions to be very very precise and to aim is specially at the military terrorist leaders will bring more news analysis on the cease fire in the middle east over the coming days coaching fully across a story as well in a web site r.t. dot com. in bahrain how keeping

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