He listens intently when I describe interviewing formidable fighters, such as Mike Tyson, who spoke lucidly about the fear that almost consumed them before a fight.
"I know," he said, describing interviews he had done with infected men early in the epidemic.
"Islamophobic violence is heavily gendered," he explains, describing interviews with Muslim women whose veils have been ripped from their heads, or whose lives are frequently littered with sexual harassment.
He described the interviews as part of an effort by the task force "to conclude its work".
"Jazz is part progressive art and part folk art," he said in a 2005 interview with DownBeat magazine, differentiating his own unassuming style from the concept-laden, critically acclaimed fare that he described as "interview music".
His other books include "The Myths of Automation" (1966), written with other Fortune editors, and "A Certain People: American Jews and Their Lives Today," which he described in interviews as his most personal book.
Mr. Burt cited numerous reasons to be suspicious of the Libyan claim, which he described in an interview the other day as "completely garbage".
After the bodies had been removed, Alix Civil, the local prosecutor, arrived at the scene, which he described in an interview as "a catastrophic situation".
The tour, which he described in an interview on Wednesday, is scheduled to begin in Detroit, the city with the largest Muslim population in the United States.
