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NY Times: A Way Out of Debt by Way of Iraq

September 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Nick Sloan was $68,021.35 in debt earlier this year when he decided he needed a change. Mr. Sloan, 26, is a captain in the Air Force, and was stationed in Colorado Springs. Looking at his financial life, he saw only a series of bad decisions.
So he made what he calls a “radical” break: he volunteered [...]

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NY Times: Chaos in Darfur on Rise as Arabs Fight With Arabs

September 4th, 2007 · No Comments

this picture is from the New York Times, and is by Evelyn Hockstein. Not a earth-shatteringly good picture, but this is the kind of photojournalism that i started out trying to do, and at this juncture in my life, where I feel so far as to have totally lost touch with my soul, with what [...]

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