New Orleans Recently, I reacted to a Nicholas Kristof column in the New York Times about the controversy around Greg Mortenson, his charity – the Central Asia Institute, the author and journalist Jon Krakauer and his expose. I thought Kristof’s mea culpa about Mortenson being his friend and his hope that there was “another side …
Author: wade
The Loan from Malcolm X’s Sister
New Orleans It is interesting how sometimes it is the little things that make such a huge difference. Reading Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention I was struck by what might seem the smallest of insignificant details that turned out to impact certainly Malcolm’s life and perhaps had an impact of millions. In the midst …
Red Teams and Fifty Rupee Balls
New Orleans Like many I’ve read the Osama Bin Laden deathwatch and Seal 6 commando raid stories, word for word, and line by line. I’ve found it fascinatingly educational. Reading Leon Panetta, the USA CIA director’s accounts of the search for Bin Laden, I found it telling that one of the last steps before presenting …