There Are Other Issues I Have Felt

Look, We'll Have To Confront The Pathologies Of Poverty At Some Point. We Can Deal With Them Cheaply At The Front End, In Infancy. Or We Can Wait And Jail A Troubled Adolescent At The Tail End. To Some Extent, We Face A Choice Between Investing In Preschools Or In Prisons.

The News Media's Silence, Particularly Television News, Is Reprehensible. If We Knew As Much About Darfur As We Do About Michael Jackson, We Might Be Able To Stop These Things From Continuing.

Laws Matter, But Typically Changing The Law By Itself Accomplishes Little.

More Girls Were Killed In The Last 50 Years, Precisely Because They Were Girls, Than Men Killed In All The Wars In The 20th Century. More Girls Are Killed In This Routine Gendercide In Any One Decade Than People Were Slaughtered In All The Genocides Of The 20th Century. The Equivalent Of 5 Jumbo Jets Worth Of Women Die In Labor Each Day... Life Time Risk Of Maternal Death Is 1,000x Higher In A Poor Country Than In The West. That Should Be An International Scandal.

I Have Often Tried To Tell The Story Of A Place Through People There.