And here my favorite program book so far has been the Iliad, because I think you get the full spectrum of human experience."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

My favorite program book so far is the Odyssey, because I think it explores the human more fully than any other book I've ever read."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

"When you read a book, you are in direct contact with the mind of another human being, without the distraction of their physical presence, of their image,of their tics .

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

we are human beings,'". Khalaf says that before working on this book, she never thought much about the death penalty, but she was deeply touched by reading the stories of men who often grew up in broken homes and who,as one inmate says, "became lost souls as children."

VOA: standard.2009.10.21