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Colombianismos – A light in the darkness?

Colombianismos – A light in the darkness?

It is rewarding to realise that investigative journalism is not as dead as many (specially powerful people) would like it to be.     WPI fellows visited the ProPublica headquarters during their week in New York City.    Nowadays, it appears to be...
Where Were You When 9/11 Happened?

Where Were You When 9/11 Happened?

It’s an event which will forever define a particular point in our lives.  I had been a reporter for barely 2 years when 9/11 happened.  I had just come home from a long work day, watching the late night local newscast in Manila when the planes crashed into...
Antidote

Antidote

Couple of years ago I flew the Atlantic keeping in my hands a book with 89 Hasidic Tales about Holocaust. The author of the book Yaffa Eliach, Holocaust survivor from Lithuania, devoted all her life to record memories of Jewish people who were able to survive. She...
The one-week New Yorker

The one-week New Yorker

12 years ago I would have seen the twin towers from the sky. I am sure of this because I saw the statue of liberty as plane prepared to land at LaGuardia airport in New York. Instead I saw what is left of it. 9/11 memorial pool. Almost 3,000 people including Ghanaians...