12th
September
2005
Colin Powell, for this gem:
“It wasn’t a racial thing … poverty disproportionately affects African-Americans in this country. And it happened because they were poor.”
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12th
September
2005
RAFAH, Gaza Strip
Palestinian teenagers Mahmoud Barbakh and Mohammed Jaroun grew up just a few minutes from the Mediterranean, but had never been to the beach.
On Monday, they waded into the waves with their jeans rolled up, then abandoned all caution and threw themselves into the surf. “It was the sweetest thing in the whole world,” said 15-year-old Mahmoud.
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