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Perspective from John MacIntyre for the San Jose Mercury News

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I didn’t find a link for this. The column is called Figuratively Speaking, August 3, 2008. How novel it is, I don’t know, but it bears repeating, and repeating, and repeating, and repeating, and repeating, and ……. A picture of a starving African baby in its mother’s arms tops the column; the caption is, “What’s …

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Jan Egeland on Charlie Rose

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This is a fascinating and informative inverview with Jan Egeland, former Undersecretary-General (USG) for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC). He talks about the many successes of the the various humanitarian efforts, as well as current critical issues and what to do about them. Egeland’s new book on these issues, A Billion Lives : …

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