Forget the malaria, the dengue, the yellow fever…
Let me tell you what will really kill you in Africa. I arrived in Kigali in the late morning on Thursday, utterly beaten by…
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Quasi-lands time zones forgot
They are airports. I have never liked layovers—I can’t think of anyone who does—but I like to think I have always been rather stoic…
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A Human Rights Statistician Finds Truth in Numbers
PALO ALTO, CALIF. — The tension started in the witness room. “You could feel the stress rolling off the walls in there,” Patrick Ball…
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This is how a friend of mine from Butare put the news of the Rwandan earthquake to me. I couldn’t help but wonder, when…
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The Day A Subway Hero’s Year of Swag Comes to An End
NEW YORK — Being a hero sometimes means, among other things, that commuting costs less. And so Wesley Autrey Sr. – “Subway Hero,” says…
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