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My Christmas gift
This is the season when we feel compelled to give. We give our time at homeless shelters, buy bags of food for the hungry and write checks out to charities that help people in far-flung places....
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Eat your heart out, Travis Bickle
Meet Linda Randolph. Her resume is impressive. Public health pediatrician. Graduated from Howard University College of Medicine and the School of Public Health in Berkeley, California. She is president...
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‘Dead Man Walking.’ Live nun talking
On my last night in New Orleans, Sister Helen and I visited death penalty attorney Denny LaBoef at her home. Denny took this photo of us. My journalism brings me face to face with all sorts of...
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Ferguson
The convenience store where Michael Brown allegedly stole cigars is boarded up ahead of the grand jury decision. I did not cover the story in August when a black teenager was killed by a white...
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We said we would not forget Haiti
I spoke with my friend Jean Mariot Cleophat by phone today. It has been five years since I first met him. He was my guide for much of my reporting journey through Haiti after the massive 2010...
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They own nothing. ZERO.
A woman sleeps on a sidewalk in central Kolkata. Extreme poverty afflicts millions in India. A few weeks ago, when President Barack Obama visited India, I wrote a piece for CNN about how my homeland...
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The saint
Pope Francis announced that Mother Teresa is becoming a saint. She will be canonized next fall. The pontiff attributed the miraculous healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumors, which means...
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From the darkness of disaster…
I first met Maya Gurung last year, a few days after a massive earthquake struck Nepal. Maya was recovering from the amputation of her left leg at a Kathmandu hospital. I wrote a story about her...
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