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...Once that pathway is cleared, then it will put up with a certain amount of statistics and data and information. That's why I try to find just the most compelling story I can and write it in a way that if someone will only read just the first half-sentence, they'll keep going. If they begin to feel some compassion, then one can lay out the larger picture...
...definitely easier. Videos and sound really help bridge that gap. That's why I often travel with a videographer. We try to bring back some of the sights and sounds of places I go to. Half the Sky [the 2009 bestseller Kristof co-wrote with his wife, Sheryl Wudunn] also experimented with some techniques, like emphasizing individual stories and positive stories to deal with the problem that people tune out things that sound too depressing...
...good to pick one issue or cause that speaks to you and then to get engaged. Write checks, sure, but maybe do more than that. If you can, go visit a project, write letters, volunteer. Really make it part of your life. When we wrote Half the Sky, we also set up Half the Sky to be a do-it-yourself toolkit for getting involved...
...think there’s a certain half-life to administrator restructures that assumes they should be looked at on a regular basis,” Kirby said. “[The OIP] made an enormous difference in a very, very short period of time...
...Nobel Peace Prize winner, is in her third period of house arrest, totaling nearly 14 of the past 20 years. The military, which has ruled Burma for nearly half a century, has promised elections this year, though no date has been set. The NLD has yet to decide whether it will participate in the elections, which are already being criticized in some quarters as a sham because Suu Kyi has been barred from taking part and her party's activities have been severely restricted. In Burma's last election in 1990, the NLD won in a landslide, only to have...