I purposely avoided blogging about Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea and the Central Asia Institute debacle. I did so because issues with my eyes largely kept me away from my computer last week. More importantly, I did so because as an academic (and not an aid worker), I am considerably less qualified to discuss Greg Mortenson than my fellow development bloggers whose boots are on the ground.
Published April 26, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Is Dead: Some Personal Reflections
I moved to the US in August of 2001 for graduate school at Cornell.
On a sunny Tuesday morning a few weeks later, after a hike up Cascadilla Gorge to get to campus from our house in downtown Ithaca, my roommate and I were told that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. A few minutes later, we heard about the second plane.