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“I am depressed … I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain … of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners…I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky.”
Those were the words left in the suicide note of Kevin Carter, the [...]

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“There are rules to constructing a cabinet: You wouldn’t appoint an education minister with kids in private schools. You wouldn’t give a man with a record of wife-beating responsibility for women’s issues. And you don’t give a roly-poly smoker the prestigious health ministry.”
-Christina Blizzard, ‘Caplan’s no picture of health’, Queen’s Park, Toronto Sun
As a communications [...]

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