I can’t believe I’m posting about George Clooney
It has come to this. But maybe the “it” isn’t me… Hold on, we need some context: Clooney recently had a dark-night-of-the-soul (or of…
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Jina leaves walker behind, joins digital revolutionaries younger than her
I think I figured out the RSS feed, which is the way-hipper answer to subscribing to a blog than subscribing by email. You know,…
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Bush Sees Results of His AIDS Plan in Africa
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA; AND KIGALI, RWANDA — In 2006, when Kau Makgosa was diagnosed with HIV, a new US-funded program provided him with free…
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In Africa, Bush Touts AIDS Efforst and Basks in Popularity
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Kwesi Amukwah, who sells Ghanaian soccer shirts, has nothing but praise for President Bush, if only because the world’s most…
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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…
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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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