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While dining with warlords or speaking to a wounded rebel may not sound appealing to all, Nicholas D. Kristof ’82, a columnist at the New York Times, goes to great lengths to uncover the individual stories behind the news. When a group of thirty Harvard students visited Kristof in New York City on a trip hosted by Lowell House this past Monday, the discussion was comprised of anecdotes, both humorous and alarming...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Excursion to Meet NYC Journalists | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...group leaned forward eagerly in their seats, raising their hands to be called on in the pseudo-conversation, Kristof casually reclined in his chair at the head of the room. Smiling, he spoke of one particularly terrifying instance, recalling, “Once, we had a truck of soldiers chasing us down a road in the jungle for an entire week until we reached Uganda. Then, to top it all off, I got malaria...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Excursion to Meet NYC Journalists | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

Kristof’s anecdotes continued as he retold conflicts with governments in a humorous tone. He has been detained more than once and barred from North Korea for life. “Though it must not have been for my life,” Kristof joked, “because a little while later they let me back...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Excursion to Meet NYC Journalists | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...Kristof spoke of the “dirty little secret of development”—that bad spending decisions are disproportionately made by men: 20 percent of daily income in Africa is spent by men on alcohol, tobacco, prostitution, and sugary drinks, and a portion of that spending could be shifted towards educating girls, he said. Educating girls also has a positive economic return over time, he added...

Author: By Kerry K. Clark, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Journalists Explore Oppression of Women | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

...profit, Circle of Women—which promotes the education of women in the developing world and has just finished building a secondary school in Afghanistan—were present at the event. Elizabeth K. Brook ’10, co-director of the organization, said she agreed with Kristof and WuDunn’s emphasis on incremental efforts, explaining that the cost of education and clean water can be covered for a student in their newly-constructed school with just $5 per month...

Author: By Kerry K. Clark, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Journalists Explore Oppression of Women | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

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