Quasi-lands time zones forgot
They are airports. I have never liked layovers—I can’t think of anyone who does—but I like to think I have always been rather stoic…
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A Human Rights Statistician Finds Truth in Numbers
PALO ALTO, CALIF. — The tension started in the witness room. “You could feel the stress rolling off the walls in there,” Patrick Ball…
Read More“Death is always getting Rwandans”
This is how a friend of mine from Butare put the news of the Rwandan earthquake to me. I couldn’t help but wonder, when…
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The Day A Subway Hero’s Year of Swag Comes to An End
NEW YORK — Being a hero sometimes means, among other things, that commuting costs less. And so Wesley Autrey Sr. – “Subway Hero,” says…
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Meet Lee Hamilton, Washington’s Bipartisan Power Broker
WASHINGTON — Political crises are supposed to be a thing of the past for Lee Hamilton. Lately – most notably as vice-chair of the…
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While I was there, at the Atlantic website, I nabbed this little quotelet from Andrew Sullivan’s blog, where he bestowed upon the Times the…
Read MoreForget fish. Teach a man–an Afghan man–to make soap. And then take all his money.
This is a tantalizing–and for that reason, far too short–look at the way U.S. foreign aid works. Albeit in a single country. In a…
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World Artists Use Biography To Move CDs
It could have been your average reggae concert: undulating vocals, punctuated keyboard riffs, rhythms that make you want to roll your hips. But these…
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Meet The Kids Who Want to Kick The Rebels Out of Darfur
WASHINGTON — There’s disagreement about how often Mark Hanis wore the powder-blue United Nations peacekeeping beret around campus.
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The Worst Book on Female Writers Ever Written (Maybe)
I represent half of Maureen Adams’s likely audience for Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton…
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