The Real Thomas Jefferson – NYTimes.com. The Monster of Monticello After reading about the slave revolts in Haiti, Jefferson wrote to a friend that “if something is not done and soon done, we shall be the murderers of our own children.” But he never said what that “something” should be.
Poor Haitian Farmers Are Left Hopeless After Storm – NYTimes.com. Already Desperate, Haitian Farmers Are Left Hopeless After Storm By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLDNOV. 17, 2012 FAUCHÉ, Haiti — A woman who lost just about everything now gives her children coffee for meals because it quiets their stomachs a bit. Another despondent mother relives the awful …
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The Talent Paradox: Funding Education as a Global Public Good | Brookings Institution. This is not back door privatization of the education system on a global scale. Funding should not be conflated with service delivery. We are advocating an equitable and transparent funding mechanism that has a chance of giving a quality education to all …
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UPDATED June 19, 2011 A Selection From the Cache of Diplomatic Dispatches Below are a selection of the documents from a cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. A small number of names and passages in some of the cables have been removed (XXXXXXXXXXXX) by The New York Times to …
