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...have seen firsthand how Mbola's farming households suffer from a recurrent drought--not of water but of nitrogen and other nutrients needed to achieve a decent harvest. Previous harvests have exhausted the soil because Mbola's farmers could not afford chemical or organic fertilizers...
...material on Princess Diana for years. Campbell casually reveals a trove of meetings she held with Blair when he was opposition leader, and describes the days after her death. There's a detailed narrative of the negotiations leading to the Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland, and a firsthand account of Blair's response to 9/11. The former Prime Minister himself emerges from the book as a man who is often impressive but sometimes fretful and indecisive. Campbell knows with a weary certainty that his book will be seen as a whitewash of Blair's record. For while Blair...
...diaries contain a firsthand account of Blair's response to the terror attacks of 9/11 and a detailed narrative of the negotiations leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the foundation of this year's historic settlement in Northern Ireland that saw old enemies enter into government together. There's even a fair bit of Labour's dirty washing: its internal struggles as it moved towards the center, and a leader, glimpsed here behind the scenes, often impressive but sometimes fretful and indecisive...
...course, just a random ugly experience - the kind of thing that can happen anywhere. But it was the first day I'd ever spent in South Africa, and it left an impression. As I'd discovered firsthand, it can be hard to escape the damaging clichés about Africa - about the perennial curses of bribery, corruption and lawlessness. These negative associations with Africa were much on the minds of people at the summit in Cape Town. "We are fighting an image problem," said Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese-born cell-phone magnate who has created a multi-million-dollar prize...
...Roger is a man with a tough hide. (And, according to my mother, a smooth one. She once stroked his face and said, "You have beautiful skin.") He's one of the few critics who can take it more than he can dish it out, as I know firsthand. In 1990, for Film Comment, I wrote a piece called "All Thumbs," about what I saw as the devolution of film criticism, and cited the Siskel-Ebert TV show (not their other writing) as an example of movie reviewing being reduced to opinion. In the next issue, Roger responded to these...