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Journalist Bill Buford Discusses Soccer "Hooligans."

Journalist Bill Buford. He traveled for eight years with "soccer thugs" -- England's hardcore soccer fans known for their violent outbreaks surrounding England's soccer games. Buford witnessed "lads" urinating on fellow spectators, commuter trains being demolished, a pub being robbed, and saw stabbings. He wanted to understand the violence that has caused many deaths (including the death of 66 fans asphyxiated in a crush of people trying to get out of a stadium in Glasgow in 1971). His new book is "Among the Thugs: The Experience, and the Seduction, of Crowd Violence." (published by W.W. Norton & Co.) John Gregory Dunne calls the book "A grotesque, horrifying, repellant and gorgeous book."

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, May 27, 1992: Interview with Bill Buford; Interview with Angelina Réaux; Commentary on the words force and violence.
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Singer Angelina Réaux.

Singer Angelina Réaux. She's gained international recognition for her interpretation of Kurt Weill music. She performed in a one-woman show, "Stranger Here Myself," a collection of Weill music, dramatically linked. (A recording of the show is on the Koch Classics International label). Réaux also performs in Opera and Concert engagements and collaborated with Leonard Bernstein in a some of his final projects: recordings of "West Side Story" and "A Quiet Place." She began her career in Broadway musicals.

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Violence vs Force.

Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg considers the difference between the words "force" and "violence."

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