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One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

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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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You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
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I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.
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There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.
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A little bit of attention can go a long way.
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One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.
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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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We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur
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Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.
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Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.
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All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
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The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
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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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In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
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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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Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
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The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
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Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health
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...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
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