Word: margarete
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...first time I met MARGARET HASSAN, CARE International's Iraq director?who was murdered by insurgents last week?I was puzzled. It was in an Iraqi government office in 1998. Here was a petite Irishwoman in her 50s with an English accent speaking fluent Arabic in one of the world's most dangerous pariah states. The U.N. sanctions that had wedged the Iraqis between an evil regime and an uncaring world had been in place for eight years. She fixed her strong, brown eyes on me and gave me the facts: Iraqi children were dying by the thousands; Iraq...
...unspeakable hostage videos made by Margaret's murderers are not the images we'll remember. Her family, her colleagues, the foreign correspondents who cherished her advice and the tens of thousands of Iraqis who benefited from her work will never forget all the good she did. ?By Richard Downes, reporter for Irish TV station...
...Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu...
Others heard about it through the recommendations of friends and decided to give it a try. The Freshman Outdoor Program summer staff even decided to try the offer as a group, according to Margaret C.D. Barusch...