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Living a Dream – Literally
June 12, 2007
Tuesday, June 12th 2007
One night in 1995, the Rev. Paul Vincent dreamed his future. Then an undergraduate at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, he saw himself arriving at Kennedy Airport and meeting a woman he had not seen in some...
Recruited To Die
June 1, 2007
June 1, 2007
In 2004, 24-year-old Brooke Goldstein spent her summer in the West Bank filming more than five hours of in-person interviews with terrorists — all of which she conducted without a bodyguard and without a weapon. A Cardozo...
I Look at Medicine as an Instrument of Social Justice
May 3, 2007
Thursday, May 3rd 2007, 8:54 PM
An ordinary mortal can’t help but wonder how Dr. Philip Ozuah does it. At 44, Ozuah is physician in chief of the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx. He also is chairman of...
Maybe God Has a Purpose for Me Here
March 22, 2007
Thursday, March 22nd 2007, 9:02 AM
When Bizu Riki Mullu was a girl, the people of her village of Mauri, in northern Ethiopia, would come out in January and sing to the storks crossing the sky. “The villagers knew the birds came...
Helping Mexican Immigrants Find Dignity — and a Better Life
March 3, 2007
March 3, 2007
Joel Magallan
Former Brother Joel Magallan has headed the Association Tepeyac for 11 years.
“Our Lady of Guadalupe is an icon of dignity,” says Joel Magallán, the head of the Asociación Tepeyac de New York,...
‘It Was Skin and Bones’: Soldiers Remember Auschwitz
January 17, 2007
January 17, 2007
When they were young, they fought the Nazis, and then bore witness to the extreme depravity of which human beings are capable.
Now in or nearing their 80s and 90s, the Allied soldiers who liberated the concentration camps of...
Internal Riches
May 31, 2006
Anita J. Raizman will never forget the day when, on her way to work at Project Ore, a kosher food bank, she saw someone abusing a homeless woman.
“I was coming to work here, and there was a black girl wrapped up in cardboard, sleeping by...
Rising to the Occasion
May 17, 2006
“When you rise to the occasion, there’s no ‘just getting by,’” says Thabiti Boone of his efforts to be a strong black male role model to inner city children. “My best is connected to my family, my future, my community, and...
Ned O’Gorman: A Ray of Hope
May 8, 2006
“Forty years ago, when he was thirty five years old, a man I know pretty well came to this neighborhood and built a school,” Ned O’Gorman said recently to a roomful of his preschool students in Harlem. “He’s a very interesting...
Steve Mariotti: Thinking Big About Small Business
April 11, 2006
“Every child should learn how to start a business, especially children who are having difficulty in school,” says Steve Mariotti. “Let them be exposed to the concept of self-ownership.”
With his easy banter and warm smile,...