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...fault. At the end of the evening, Power asked him whether he still believes that now. Beah replied that he had finally recognized he was in fact a victim. He won a standing ovation and a crowd gathered around Beah as the room slowly emptied. One audience member, Carr Center member Rahim B. Kanani, said at the end of the night, that he, like Power, had been convinced. “He really is a rock star...
...school district is investigating whether the inaccurate records reflect a pattern of deception or sloppy paperwork. "We have uncovered some legitimate questions as to how some information has been handled," says Nora Carr, chief communications officer for the district...
...under-read, so I felt that I would do what I could to explain his work and bring it to new people.”At Monday’s talk, Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy Samantha Power, who moderated the discussion for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, suggested that Eggers’ work as a writer in the service of humanitarian goals has overtaken his role as a writer. In addition to writing “What is the What,” Eggers is a co-editor...
...It’s a story about genocide and I wanted to bring that to people so that they could know about events that were taking place far, far away from us,” he said. Samantha Power, the moderator and formerly the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights, which co-sponsored the event, said that a “leadership vacuum” existed in Washington that made books like Eggers’ even more vital to spurring action. She said that “What is the What” was ideal...
...tempting for any professional journalist to root for Carr. I certainly don't want to be replaced by volunteers. But then, this magazine couldn't be produced without the volunteers, such as Yochai Benkler, who allow us journalists to interview them. Cable TV news channels are pageants of volunteerism, with much airtime filled by unpaid guests. The majority of these people aren't motivated by Kropotkin's spirit of mutual aid--they seek fame, an audience for their ideas, higher fees on the speaking circuit. But for those minutes on air, they are working for free...