Tag: global citizen
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Morocco: Lessons from Tahar
My friend Tahar has the brightest face I have ever seen. He seemed to be friends with everybody—when he wasn’t talking to me, I would pass him at his shop conversing with locals and Western shoppers alike with that same luminous smile. When I was in a hurry, he was respectful. One of the few…
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We’ll Always Have Barranco: A Love Affair with Peru
It was the first time I had ever seen the Pacific Ocean. It was 10 p.m. in Lima, the city just now coming alive, and we drove here and there through the barrios surrounding the airport to the highway that ran by the sea. It pushed. It pulled. It gushed. It called to me.…
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“Dallas is Just a Transition Ground for the Midwest”: A Conversation with Belle Pardue
I sit down with my dear friend Belle Pardue on a Friday night at the Kona Grill in Dallas. They have a reverse happy hour for the mall employees, “The Northpark Centre” employees, as she corrects me. “They’re very adamant about it; the ‘re’. This place is closely tied with the Nashers—I know wealthy people…