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Gary Knight /
Jeff Danziger /
Bombay Flying Club /
Jérôme Tubiana /
Mort Rosenblum /
Edward Girardet /
Jeffrey Fagan /
Emma Daly /
Shubhranshu Choudhary /
Jon Lee Anderson /
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Learning from Darfur /
Bir-ed-dik, “the cockerel’s well” in Arabic, is a small village at the far north of Darfur, up where Sahel meets Sahara, territory controlled by rebels since 2003 when war broke out with the Sudan government. Strategically important, its wadi holds two wells dug in the sands after each rainy season to [...]
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The Rich and the Desperate /
After years of poking uninvited into other people’s misery, Gary Knight and I, co-editors of dispatches, had the routine down. But this place was particularly scary. Acrid coal smoke tinged the air with forbidding brown. Hostile eyes stared from behind windows opaque with dirt. We turned a corner to find basic [...]
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Why Aid Fails /
Several years ago in Afghanistan, I chatted over a drink with a U.S. Agency for International Development coordinator. We were at Gandamak Lodge, one of dozens of guesthouses that popped up since 2001 as 3,000 expatriates converged on Kabul to take advantage of a recovery effort costing well over $20 billion. [...]
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Blocked Exits /
Benny was the leader of a Brooklyn gang called the Cherubs back in the 1950s. Like others at that time, it was a neighborhood gang, a tribe of kids with intricate ties to local families, shopkeepers, priests, politicians, cops, and the old heads, local oracles who were everyone’s source of history [...]
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Poverty and War: Lessons in Bosnia /
The first home I visited in wartime Sarajevo belonged to a middle-class family, comfortable before the war, car owners, accustomed to Adriatic vacations.
By 1994 they were reduced to a couple of habitable rooms, surviving on humanitarian handouts, yet hospitable in the Bosnian tradition. They offered coffee; I declined, thinking [...]
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The Dark Side /
Our launch took two hours to reach Singaran, the first “cut-off” village on Balimela reservoir, which my tourist guidebook calls “a great place for scenic beauty and adventure water sport.” As the lone boat of the day had left, the only way in was to hitch a ride with the police. As [...]
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