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...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]. Deo, for the longest time, was their fundraiser, and he did an amazing job; he gathered friends and family from America and Burundi to rally...
...Mass. Secretary of Transportation told the Boston Globe last night that the two fires were a "perfect storm," coming one after another, and that workers had done the best they could to handle the situation. But the MBTA seems to be swamped with trouble lately...
...light of the current economic climate, the university has done an admirable job of tying the goals of sustainability with cost-cutting imperatives. The heating decrease of two degrees implemented last year within residential suites not only represented an energy-conscious move but also helped the university significantly cut its budget deficit for this fiscal year...
...What can be done now? The military will want more troops to paper over its strategic mistake. It will resist any suggestion to leave Helmand and redeploy to Kandahar. "That would be a death sentence for all the people in Helmand who have supported us," a military expert told me. It is a compelling argument but, ultimately, a flawed one; death sentences are being delivered every night in Kandahar. And remember the military's poky timetable: "We are trying to decide now how to redeploy the troops we already have in Afghanistan, the units that provided the security...
...said, "Let me 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...