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I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

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The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month
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The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding
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Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives
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Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.
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Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.
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A little bit of attention can go a long way.
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I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.
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Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.
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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
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If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.
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One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.
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Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
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In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
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Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.
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There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.
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Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles if it was a woman, she was likely raped if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.
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Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.
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It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
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I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.
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In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.
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