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    Your comments, however much a nerve might have been hit, are spot on.
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    • I agree, but for one point: Niger may be poor, but it is one fascinating country.  Niamey is a wonderful…
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    • Hey!  Then they wouldn't be able to justify those nice pay raises the Pennsylvania legislators just gave each other.  It's…
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    • Best you haven't seen?  Hmmm... Ones you may have seen, but that deserve mention: The Grand Illusion 400 Blows The…
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    • Thanks for the reminder. Given our current Senate, we do need to remember that it has not always been so…
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    • Thanks.  We are losing too much of our past.  I'm hoping that more and more people are creating pdf files…
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    • Thanks!
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    • Remind me where I say the fortunate have no responsibility for ending poverty.  They most certainly do, but "we" (the…
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    • Before Watergate (and believe me, I don't know why that's the watershed, but it is), reporters were much less dependent…
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    • My point wasn't about whether or not the aid helped Africa, but that it would have been better for Africa…
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    • If you like that piece, Susan, check out another article I did for Parallax: "A Question of Survival."  It's on…
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    • In 1985, there was enough food in West Africa to feed the starving that Live Aid was concerned with.  For…
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    • Oh, I'd forgotten that one!  Thanks.
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    • Good point.
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    • I don't think that's a good reason for not giving--a rather self-serving one.  But I do understand what that director…
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    • That's one of her plans.
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    • Thanks, Susan. A hopeful sign: my co-author is returning to Africa this summer for a long stint as an auditor…
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    • That's a good idea, too--doing a diary recapping what's there.  I will do that. Thanks.
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    • Check out this article I wrote a few years ago about development aid.  It ties in to what you are…
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    • My father was a WWII vet who was very anti-Vietnam.  Sometimes, I think, he felt a little alone because so…
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