The Trials of Greg Mortenson

ON JANUARY 20, in a conference room at the Sonnenalp Resort in Vail, Colorado, a significant encounter took place, and it seemed like an unmistakable sign that the case against Greg Mortenson and the…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (644 words)

The Nazi Leader Who, in 1937, Became the Oskar Schindler of China

How John Rabe helped Chinese survive Japan's horrific World War II invasion and became "the living Buddha of Nanking" Chinese civilians held as captives of Japanese troops during the Nanking…
AUTHOR:Iris Chang
LENGTH: 3 minutes (898 words)

Lance Armstrong and Livestrong

BRRRIIIIING!It’s a journalistic axiom that when your phone rings early on a Monday, from a blocked number, it’s generally not because somebody loves your work. I picked up to hear an…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (509 words)

M.F. Husain, Free at Last

M. F. Husain at the Serpentine Gallery during the Installation of 'Indian HIghway', December 2008 Like possibly several other children growing up in the kind of lower-middle class…
SOURCE:kafila.org
PUBLISHED: June 10, 2011
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3712 words)
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