Tackling Homelessness Beyond Shelters
Rosanne Haggerty’s Common Ground creates permanent housing that has reduced homelessness by 87 percent in one 20-block area of New York City. Rosanne Haggerty…
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Extreme Do-GooderS: What Makes Them Tick?
Five extraordinary social entrepreneurs talk about their defining moments – when the urge to change the world gathered such force they couldn’t ignore it….
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Empathy Is His Superpower
Geoffrey Canada’s initiative, Harlem Children’s Zone, has grown to reach 8,000 children across nearly 100 city blocks. New York — Geoffrey Canada still remembers…
Read MoreYou don't get to be 15 years on the lam from genocide charges without being clever…
Here’s an update on the FDLR web page story, a short online piece for the Christian Science Monitor.
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Reporter Succeeds Where UN Failed: Rwanda rebel website closed
FDLR militia group’s website in Europe shut down after German newspaper raised questions. The war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo took a surprising…
Read MoreGermany to FDLR: "Page not found"
It’s not like the FDLR web page was any big secret. The Hutu militia still active in eastern Congo, and viewed by most as…
Read MoreSo much for the Interrogators-Gone-Wild defense
The New York Times finally made it through the newest set of newly released documents on CIA interrogations and concludes that they suggest —…
Read MoreMaybe if I took Anna Wintour to Congo for a Vogue cover shoot, I could get my expenses covered?
The New York Post says today: According to sources, Wintour’s European entourage, which is usually about 10 people including her creative director, fashion director,…
Read MoreBack home, a page from the Sarah Palin playbook
Remember back when Sarah Palin was baiting David Letterman over his stupid joke? (I know. I wish I didn’t either.) Remember the best part…
Read MoreEt cetera, and some good reading
The list of things to blog about is long, but time has been short lately, and this blog, if I would let it, would…
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