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• I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who…
• But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to…
• When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
• The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
• And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
• I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making…
• The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to…
• Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
• In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
• A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person…
• I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time…
• I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in…

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