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...ideas. You are drawn into Deo’s world. And that world is the world of international health affairs. I think there’s some ridiculous ideas out there that journalists shouldn’t be moved by what they see; there’s a certain built-in detachment to the job itself, but I was moved by what I saw in Haiti, and similarly moved by what Deo has done to create Village Health Works.THC: Tell us a little about Village Health Works.TK: It is a sister organization to Partners in Health [which Paul Farmer founded...
...tell you something. I believe that if it were up to you or me, just regular schmoes in America, the Freedom Tower would have been done years ago. And it wouldn't have been the Freedom Tower; it would have been the Freedom Towers - because we would've built both of these towers back the way they were before! Except we would've built them stronger! We would've built them in a way that they would've resisted attack. And you know what? My guess is they would've been 25 stories taller, with a big, fat 'Come...
...years of collaborative research with Le Monde food writer Jean-Claude Ribaut and fine-food suppliers Alexandre Drouard and Samuel Nahon of Terroirs d'Avenir. Scouring archives and the surrounding countryside, the quartet has rediscovered many of the recipes and produce upon which Paris' culinary reputation was built. (Read "Learn to Cook Like Alain Ducasse...
...most remarkable thing about the Settha Palace Hotel is that it still exists. Built by the French in the 1930s, it was a mainstay of colonial Vientiane and in its heyday was managed by Frenchman Michel Theodas and his Chinese wife Yusin. Their tenure, and an era, ended in 1975 when the communists came to power, seized the property as worker housing and sent the Theodas family packing...
...potentially more damaging, and the fact that its key author is the widely respected Jewish South African Judge Richard Goldstone makes it more difficult to dismiss his work as an anti-Israel smear. Goldstone has ties to Israel and a reputation for honest exploration of politically sensitive subjects built in the course of his work at the head of the his country's Truth Commission and, later, of the Hague tribunal for war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia. Nevertheless, his report is being read as a smear in the Israeli mainstream. (See pictures of Israel's assault on Gaza...