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WuDunn told the story of one difficult reporting trip where she was trying to write a story about the plight of the peasant...
...handled the women's conference, faith in China's ability to play by international rules has suffered mightily. The sometimes unfriendly, not to say surly treatment of guests from more than 180 countries so dominated foreign news dispatches that conference leaders despaired of communicating their serious business: relieving the plight of women worldwide who suffer worse things than searches and bad plumbing. Into this welter of conflicting concerns stepped one visitor who seemed to bring it all together--to issue a ringing call against abuse and discrimination in their universal forms as well as their particular manifestations at the conference...
...expertise and activism among the Russian people. For every profiteer who would make a quick buck off the fire sale of Siberia's assets, there are many who decry the theft of national patrimony. What Russia does not have is time and money, and the paradoxical nature of its plight is that it must sell its resources in order to stabilize its economy and thus create a democracy in which rules can be enforced regulating the exploitation of those resources...
...took genuine interest in my sister's plight," said Dinh, who is now an associate special counsel to the U.S. Senate...
...quite a proposition from the man who was called "The Butcher of the Balkans" not so long ago. The interview was his first with an English-language publication in more than a year, and that he gave it may be itself some indication of his seriousness-or of his plight...