Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition
Nicholas D. KristofOnce you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.
Nicholas D. KristofThe equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
Nicholas D. KristofThe intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.
Nicholas D. KristofYou could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing. It struck me as a better way to learn about a place, or at least a different way, than just going to interview the president. So I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. But I'm just amazed.
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