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...there that journalists shouldn’t be moved by what they see; there’s a certain built-in detachment to the job itself, but I was moved by what I saw in Haiti, and similarly moved by what Deo has done to create Village Health Works.THC: Tell us a little about Village Health Works.TK: It is a sister organization to Partners in Health [which Paul Farmer founded]. Deo, for the longest time, was their fundraiser, and he did an amazing job; he gathered friends and family from America and Burundi to rally for a public health effort...
...intelligence work, but few would be willing to risk ostracism by their elders. "If I even hinted to my father that I was considering becoming a spy, he would disown me," said one young man at the dinner, who asked not to be named. "He would be ashamed to tell his friends that his son was working...
...said, "Let me tell you something. I believe that if it were up to you or me, just regular schmoes in America, the Freedom Tower would have been done years ago. And it wouldn't have been the Freedom Tower; it would have been the Freedom Towers - because we would've built both of these towers back the way they were before! Except we would've built them stronger! We would've built them in a way that they would've resisted attack. And you know what? My guess is they would've been 25 stories taller, with...
...Profit Motive We tell ourselves a tale in America, and you can read it in Latin on the back of a buck: E pluribus unum. Many people from many lands, made one in a patriotic forge. And there's truth in that story - it conjures powerful pictures in the theater of our national mind. But it can also be misleading. Lots of Americans can't stand one another, don't trust each other and are willing - even eager - to believe the worst about one another. This story is as old as the gun used by Vice President Aaron Burr...
...financial aid. "Colleges have a financial-aid calendar that starts in November for the following year, not in July. I think the Administration really believes you can just throw a switch and everything will change over. But as someone who actually has to throw that switch, I can tell you that there's a bunch more switches behind that one that you don't even see. It's not that simple." Still, for an Administration that fully expected a knock-down, drag-out fight over the student-loan plan, those kinds of problems probably seem pretty easy to solve...