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...might have asked the public to pay a tax to support the war, as Congressman David Obey has suggested. Or he might have listed some charities that people could contribute to - Greg Mortenson's brilliant effort to build schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan comes to mind - or he might have asked Americans to send clothing, or seeds, to the second poorest country in the world. This is a message, a resolute and passionate evocation of national purpose, that the Taliban need to hear as well...
Compare this to Greg Mortenson, nominated for the prize by some members of Congress, whom the bookies gave 20-to-1 odds of winning. Son of a missionary, a former Army medic and mountaineer, he has made it his mission to build schools for girls in places where opium dealers and tribal warlords kill people for trying. His Central Asia Institute has built more than 130 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan - a mission which has, along the way, inspired millions of people to view the protection and education of girls as a key to peace and prosperity and progress...
...were going to bring them a road. And they said, "Oh no, no roads. If you put a road here, people will drive up and take our timber." Right away that teaches you that if you don't understand, and you put in a road - just like Greg Mortenson found out [when] he wanted to build a school but the villagers needed a bridge - sometimes you have to stop and figure things out. They are not illogical. They are rational. So what they want and why they do things is often based on things we don't understand. So first...
...Once and Present Future. The Museum of the City of New York has the exhibit Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx by Ray Mortenson - black-and-white pictures of razed sections of New York City, taken between 1982 and 1984, depicting the aftermath of the last economic crisis, in the 1970s. Through March 8, 2009. 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd Street, New York...
...EASTERN PROMISES The new melodrama from David Cronenberg, the Canadian director with three decades of weird thrills on his résumé, has the vibe of his last one, A History of Violence. Viggo Mortenson is again a charismatic mystery man involved with organized crime. This time, in a script by Steve Knight (Dirty Pretty Things), it's the Russian mob in London. Naomi Watts plays the innocent trapped in a toxic...