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...dragging people with terrible injuries, searching for a hospital that had ceased to exist. Using about $200,000 of his own cash, Khan says, he bought all the medicine and bandages he could find, grabbed anyone who had first-aid training and set up a tent hospital to tend to the hordes of wounded staggering in. For the worst injured, he arranged a makeshift ambulance service to ferry them over the mountains to hospitals 26 miles away. He bought 150 tents for homeless families and allowed them to camp on his land, and he has established a fund to help...
...tend to think democracies come truly alive only when we elect or throw out a President or Congressman or Senator. But the truth is that sometimes the democratic spirit is more vibrant in the intervals. Democracy is rooted in the impertinent belief that our rulers are no better than we are and that they are answerable always. We're occasionally amazed to discover that people who are used to power forget that. That's why, every now and again, we have to remind them. In that sense, 2005 was a great year for democracy. Because it was reborn this time...
...Bill Gates and Bono had tag-team meetings with Blair, Schröder and other leaders, using the example of one as peer pressure for the other. Bill remembers talking to Bono between meetings and telling him he wasn't sure Schröder would come around. Bono was undeterred. "I tend to be a little more realistic," Bill says. "He's always saying, 'Yeah, we can do this...
...bedrocks of Sugimoto's career. "Ever since photography was invented," he explains, "it has been credited with providing credibility"?hence the adage that the camera never lies. This is a fallacy he revels in exploding: "I feel lucky to be working during a time when people still tend to believe the photograph actually is what it seems to be. I use this belief as one of the tools...
...Because gender-focused courses tend to be predominantly taught and attended by women, May says she finds herself in classes in which the man is the “oddball...