But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.