From the Frontline: January 2008 Archives
Think Balkans, not Rwanda
Picture originaly uploaded by DEMOSH The last thing a massive news organisation should do is inflame an already volatile situation by using inflamatory words and phrases with deep historical significance. This is, I hope, why almost all of the mainstream media reporting on the current situation in Kenya has...more
"I am here to take you to the airport"
In today's Washington Post, freelance reporter Nicholas Schmidle talks about the dangers of reporting from Pakistan and how he was forced to leave, The police came for me on a cold, rainy Tuesday night last month. They stood in front of my home in Islamabad, four men with hoods...more
Risks to ethnic press in America
The San Francisco Chronicle highlights a Committee for the Protection of journalists report that states since 1976, 11 of the 13 journalists killed in the United States in apparent retaliation for their reporting worked for the ethnic press, "It's exactly that kind of person who covers the local community in...more
"I would never do it again"
Filmmaker Mike Shiley says he'd never do it again. The filmmaker, who quit his job and faked an ABC press pass before infiltrating Iraq, won awards for his documentary Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories. This week he spoke at a screening and Q&A at Temple University in Philadelphia. During...more
Alaa Abdul Kareem buried in Najaf
Alaa Abdul Kareem, who was killed on Tuesday when a bomb went off on the road between Balad and Samarra, was buried in Najaf yesterday. Kareem had been working for the TV station, Al Furat. Asad Khadhim, Chief Correspondent for the station, talked to the New York Times about...more
Maddening Martha
Variety magazine is less than impressed with a new play called The Maddening Truth that portrays the life of the famous war correspondent Martha Gellhorn who died in 1998. Martha is particularly well known for her eyewitness accounts of the Spanish Civil War, the devastation at Dachau, and the...more
Mohammed Al-Aarabid discusses his arrest in Gaza
Reporters Without Borders talks to Mohammed Al-Aarabid about his recent arrest in the Gaza Strip. Al-Aarabid is a cameraman with the French news agency Blue Press. He was arrested at his home in Gaza on 27 January 2008. After interogation in a detention centre he was released on 29 January,...more
Watch the birdie
[video:youtube:iFFK655bbEU] A TV news reporter in Canada gets more than he bargained for when reporting on an infestation of Canadian Brown Finches. This is one reporter with a nose (and mouth) for a story......more
No more Mr. Nice Guy
[video:youtube:o1OQ3warWkU] Talking on The Book Show, club member and seeming regular on this blog, John Simpson talks about his attitude to reporting, particularly war reporting, and how it has changed in recent years, A man that drops a bomb from 16,000 feet. The man or woman that straps explosives around...more
Infotainment
Writing in The Long Term View, a publication of the Massachusetts School of Law Michelle Pulaski, professor of communications art at Pace University, Pleasantville, N.Y. drums out the now standard - "The media didn't do its job in the run up to the Iraq war" - line. She describes...more
Philip Jones Griffiths - Vietnam Trilogy
[video:brightcove:1394647866] Philip Jones Griffiths is widely considered to be one of the greatest war photographers of the twentieth century. He presented pictures from his trilogy of Vietnam books at the club last week. I was there and it was a fascinating talk. One of those talks where you don't want...more
A soldier in Helmand
I'm very pleased to announce the latest addition to the From the Frontline blog stable - the Soldier's Blog. This is the blog of an anonymous Danish soldier about to deploy to Helmand province in Afghanistan. He'll be blogging about the daily life of a soldier before and during...more
Bleasdale on the BBC
Frontline member and photojournalist, Marcus Bleasdale, is interviewed by Chris Vallance from BBC Radio 5 Live's Pods and blogs show. You can listen the download here. Marcus talks about his work in the Democratic Republic of Congo and his use of multimedia. His is the second interview slot on the...more
The Kabul yeti
Jean MacKenzie at the Institute of War and Peace Reporting looks forward to heading down to Helmand for one reason and one reason alone - the weather, You know you’ve hit rock bottom when a trip to Helmand is a step up. But as I boarded the little Beechcraft this...more
I'm not Trevor
It appears BBC World Affairs Editor and Frontline club member, John Simpson, gets mistaken for all kinds of other media folk. Int eh February issue of High Life Magazine, John tells readers he is often mistaken for Sir David Attenborough. But, it doesn't end there, 'In Britain, I'm also occasionally...more
No room at the inn
Reporting on the Gaza problem from Rafah in Egypt. NBC News Producer Charlene Gubash, tells us how it is for her Palestinian colleagues, On Saturday, hotels were ordered to turn away Palestinian guests. Our Palestinian colleague was forced to spend a cold night in the car because the hotel refused...more
Vaughan Smith up for a Guardian gong
OK. Here's some great news. Club founder and journalist whizz of the old school, Vaughan Smith, is up for a gong at the inaugural Media Guardian Innovation Awards, or MEGAs, for his live blogging, video reports, twittering and picture taking from the frontline on this very blog. He is...more
Flower power photographer dies
Photographer Bernie Boston has died at his home after a long battle with amyloidosis, a rare blood disease. He was 74. His flower power picture was a Pulitzer Prize runner up. Among several honors, "Flower Power" was named No. 30 on a list of the 100 greatest war photos...more
Missing what's important
In an interview Salam Adil at the excellent blog aggregator, Global Voices, sums up the limitations of the mainstream media working in Iraq, Many times the mainstream media, by sheer virtue of being a foreign organisation, completely misses what is important. Blogs can fill in these gaps or provide insight...more
"Journalists are fair game"
Terry Anderson, the Associated Press war correspondent held hostage in Lebanon for six years during the 1980's, speaks out about the present day safety situation for journalists, "[Iraq] is the most dangerous war that journalists have ever covered, by far," Anderson said. "Eighty percent of the murders of journalists around...more
Bonegrinders
[video:youtube:nzK4qyArD1A] Not quite sure what to make of this... Bonegrinders is a play by Melody Von Smith and it opens on 22 February at the Road Less Traveled Theater, Buffalo, New York and runs until mid-March. According to the spiel, Bonegrinders is the story of a war journalist that returns...more
3,000 Capa negatives unearthed
More than 3,000 Robert Capa negatives of pictures taken during the Spanish Civil War have been found some 70 years later. Capa died in Vietnam in 1954 believing the Nazis had pilfered them from his Parisian digs during the World War II. It turns out a Mexican General/diplomat took...more
Joe Sacco podcast
Like a cross between cartoonist R. Crumb and international correspondents such as CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Sacco's comics are a personal narrative that feels inseparable from the dangerous places he visits. link That's how Brian Libby describes war cartoonist Joe Sacco on Oregon Live. Sacco has an exhibition running at...more
Journalism centre for Qatar
Reporters Without Borders and the Emirate of Qatar are working together to create a new center for journalists in dire situations. The centre will open in Doha, Qatar by next March, The center is expected to have a medical facility and temporary accommodation for Arab and Muslim journalists who have...more
Carsten Thomassen laid to rest
Norwegians said a final farewell to the journalist Carsten Thomassen today. He was murdered, along with six others, at the Serena hotel in Kabul last week. The Norwegian Foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, who was also in the Serena when Thomassen was killed spoke at the funeral, "Carsten was...more
Back to Vietnam
Philip Jones Griffith was talking about his photographic work at the Frontline club tonight. He focussed on Vietnam. The hall was rammed and it was standing room only. Philip ran through some of his most famous photographs beginning with the start of the Vietnam war up until around 2002....more
Pizza in Kabul
Kabul hillside, originally uploaded by zedwards. Jean Mackenzie at the Institute for War and Peace reporting tells us how easy it is these days to grab a pizza in Kabul, Friday night at Boccacio, formerly known as Villa Villebita. Remember the old days? You would show up, desperate for...more
Kenyan crackdown
Shashank Bengali works for McClatchy newspapers and is based in Nairobi. He blogged about recent events in Kenya and took a number of snaps of the local media on the job recording what was happening. Here's the clip for the snap above, Photog gets a closeup of the police...more
From doctor to journalist
An Iraqi doctor, now a student at Ball State University in the United States, is giving the world one of its first glimpses inside a Baghdad hospital. The Star Press says, Omer Salih Mahdi "puts a human face on the destruction caused by bombs that rip through Baghdad streets,"...more
His name is Rio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, nov.07, originally uploaded by kaysha. Brazil-based foreign correspondent Bill Hinchberger talks to BrazilMax about his two decades as a correspondent in the South American country, I’ve long maintained that I’ll only believe that Brazil is serious about attacking corruption, impunity and the generalized disrespect like...more
Marcus on MediaStorm, Fred on the frontline
Marcus Bleasdale emails to tell us about a stunning new multimedia package he has produced for MediaStorm. It's called Rape of a Nation. It includes Marcus' incredible black and white photographs, interviews with the photographer and video footage. You can watch the 12 minute production by clicking the video...more
Enjoy your stay
J. Malcolm Garcia writes a lengthy piece in the Virginia Quarterly Review about his recent return to Afghanistan and his impressions since he was last there in October, 2004. The Spin Ghar hotel in Jalalabad, a popular hangout for ex-Taliban commanders, offered a warm welcome....more
Partytime in Ramadi
Peter Carlson scans through the magazines for the Washington Post and finds an article in the Virginia Quarterly Review by David J. Morris, a marine veteran turned journalist/college teacher. Morris returned to Ramadi in October. The reception he got this time around was quite different from the first time he...more
Blackberry at the ready
This week's 'My Week' column in the Press Gazette is written by Paula Newton, CNN International security correspondent, as she heads out to Kenya. Although, despite being a security correspondent, she seems to have snubbed inflight security procedures with excessive Blackberry use on approach to Kisumu airport, As we flew...more
Best part of three years embedded
You might not agree with the way he sees things in Iraq, but Michael Yon has spent longer there than any other reporter. Three years and holding. Yet, he's not strictly a reporter. He's an embedded blogger and he has a transparent agenda. The New York Times profiles Yon,...more
A marriage made in Baghdad
A husband and wife war reporting team tell of the battles they've seen and the battles they've had in the New York Times, “It’s just mortars,†I told her. In fact, I wasn’t sure about the cause, which Diana could immediately see. “Stop trying to protect me,†she snapped....more
Vietnam and beyond
Philip Jones Griffiths will be giving a talk at the Frontline club this coming Thursday. He first made his name for his pictures from the Vietnam war. The Independent newspaper interviews Philip today, "Journalism is about obliterating distances, bringing far away things closer home and impressing it on people's...more
Alan Johnston back at work
Alan Johnston gets back to work today. He'll be the new presenter of From Our Own Correspondent for BBC World Service. Kate Adie, who currently presents the BBC Radio 4 version which is aimed at a British audience, will continue to present that edition. The Press Gazette has more, Commenting...more
About men who kill
“On that day they were chasing each other round with body parts and they thought it was very funny. It was their way of surviving it.†The hard truth is that the US marines are good at killing and rejoice in it. Their training instils a terrible indifference to killing....more
Martin Bell puts boot in
Former BBC foreign correspondent and man in white suit MP Martin Bell puts the boot into the media obsession with the Madeleine McCann story describing it as "necro-news" But that's not all, He went on to say the Six O'Clock News was being presented by the "auto-cutie on duty"....more
Creighton Burns
The former editor of The Age, Creighton Burns, died yesterday in Cabrini Hospital, Australia aged 82. Burns served eight years as editor of The Age from 1981 to 1989. In 1991 he received the Order of Australia. He joinied The Age in 1964 as a foreign correspondent, serving in Singapore,...more
Knowing it
The Times reviews club member Christina Lamb's new book Small Wars Permitting today. Quentin Peel, the FT's international affairs editor and reviewer of the book, makes some pretty spot on observations about journalists, It is not just a question of being in the right place at the right time, as...more
Life imitating journalists
Rob Crilly in Kenya wins my vote for snap of the week. Rob, when you gonna start blogging at Fromthefrontline... ???...more
Jean-Paul Ney arrested and charged
The French photojournalist Jean-Paul Ney who was detained on December 27, 2007 outside the headquarters of the national TV station in the Ivory Coast has been arrested and charged along with nine others, The 10 are accused of conspiracy against the state, belonging to an armed group, and threatening public...more
Anastassia in Bogotá
The first of our new bloggers is up and running today. Anastasia Moloney is a British freelance journalist based in the Colombian capital, Bogotá. She’s a regular contributor to the Financial Times, a contributing editor for the Washington-based website World Politics Review and she has previously blogged for The Guardian's...more
Journalist arrested in Somalia
Reporters Without Borders reports that Ayanle Hussein Abdi, a stringer with the BBC Somali service, was arrested yesterday in Beletwein in the central region of Hiran. There has been no explanation for the arrest, “The very few journalists who continue to work in Somalia at risk of their lives are...more
Dressing the story
Is it just me, or is The Guardian newspaper increasingly headed towards the tabloid drain these days?? Anyway... Tim Dowling explores the sartorial possibilities for burka wearing, master of disguise, Frontline club member and roving reporter John Simpson as he traverses the world's danger zones. Most recently in Zimbabwe....more
Chicago Tribune foreign correspondents speak
The Chicago Tribune features an excellent series of short video profiles of five of the newspaper's foreign correpondents; Laurie Goering, Tom Hundley, Evan Osnos, Kim Barker and Christine Spolar. Christine is a Frontline Club member and she talks about her life as a reporter from early days through Bosnia,...more
Back in the sandbox
A former US soldier and milbogger who served in Iraq until October 2007 is heading back to the "sandbox", but not with the army, I am going back of my own free will- I am becoming a participant in this great experiment of independent, citizen journalism. I am going back...more
From Mogadishu
[video:brightcove:1378319364] David Axe, of the War is Boring blog, continues his Somalia coverage with a short film he shot for World Politics Review in December, 2007. Part two follows shortly....more
Liu Heung Shing's China
Liu Heung Shing is the only ethnic Chinese to have won a Pulitzer prize for photography. He shared the 1992 spot news prize with AP Moscow colleagues. Liu spent much of his journalistic life as a foreign correspondent in places like Los Angeles, New Delhi, Seoul and Moscow. Liu...more
People of the book
Former Wall Street Journal war correspondent Geraldine Brooks is busy promoting her new novel called 'People of the Book' The author drew on her experience in Bosnia for the story which is set in Sarajevo. Kirsten Tagami interviews Geraldine for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, I was in Bosnia during...more
Tom Ricks gets grilled
Military reporter for the Washington Post Tom E. Ricks gets the quiz treatment from readers today. The former Pulitzer prize winner has reported from Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraq and is the author of the 2006 book, FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in...more
Simpson gets a makeover
Frontline club member and BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson is in Zimbabwe filing live reports for the BBC News at Ten. No mean feat for one of Britain's most recognizable reporters in one of the world's least BBC-friendly spots, Back in London a make-up artist fitted me out...more
Carsten Thomassen killed at the Serena
The gunfire and bomb blasts that rocked the only luxury hotel in Kabul yesterday killed Norwegian journalist Carsten Thomassen. He wrote for the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet. He was reporting on the visit of Jonas Gahr Støre, the Norwegian Foreign Minister. The International federation of Journalists condemns the attack, "This...more
Lamb on 5 Live
Frontline club member and 2007 Foreign correspondent of the year Christina Lamb, joins BBC Radio 5 live's Simon Mayo to talk about her most recent book, Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands. Download the interview here. Christina will be talking about her life as a foreign correspondent and...more
Richard Wild "unlawfully killed"
Richard Wild was killed while working on a feature about museum looting in Baghdad in July 2003. He had only been in the country for two weeks and wanted to establish himself as a war reporter. He was shot in the back of the head. At the time Oxford Coroner's...more
4 million bullets
The Ministry of Defence revises original figures of bullets used by British troops in Helmand province, Afghanistan. The real number, circa-4 million bullets, is almost double the original estimate, "These new figures illustrate the intensity of fighting our troops face. It does call into question Des Browne's judgment that the...more
Getting the story out
Tim Arango, writing in the International Herald Tribune, considers the dangers facing journalists in Iraq and looks at the methods news organisations use to recruit local reporters, fixers and translators, "When you are working side by side, you get to know the person, and if the person seems unreliable, or...more
Subtitling Saddam supporters
[video:youtube:cG-wXgDhO54] A "war reporter" in Iraq gives the subtitle treatment to her interviewee......more
David Greising on foreign correspondents
David Greising talks about being a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. Economic worries and the future of the profession are foremost in his mind. Greising's piece is one of three taking the temperature of the people who work for the Tribune, “Nobody really knows what the fun-damental economics are...more
Journalist faces death penalty
The British Foreign Secretary is facing pressure to help secure the release of a French-British journalist in Niger who faces the death penalty. The Press Association has more, Freelance photo-journalist Thomas Dandois was arrested along with two colleagues on a reporting trip for TV station ARTE on December 17. The...more
Citizen journalist beaten to death
Disturbing news for Chinese citizen journalists, bloggers and mobile phone camera people in The Guardian, A man who used his mobile phone to film a violent clash between villagers and officials in rural China was beaten to death by public order "enforcers", Chinese state media reported yesterday, bringing more unwanted...more
Bourne to Baghdad
[video:brightcove:1026280250] 2008 looks set to host something of a war film mania. Matt Damon is the latest actor to go to war. The star of the Bourne trilogy of films, starts work in Spain today with film director Paul Greengrass and actress Amy Ryan on an as yet untitled war...more
Elephant's graveyard
Words of woe for club members John Simpson and George Alagiah seeping from the pen of Daily Mail columnist Richard Kay today, Perhaps globetrotting John Simpson should avoid the Pan Bookshop on the Fulham Road when next in London. His book News From No Man's Land is at half price...more
From Persia to politics
Former NBC war reporter Arthur Kent who earned the nickname "Scud Stud" during the 1992 Gulf War is moving into politics. He'll be running as a Conservative candidate in Calgary, "After 36 years as a reporter, much of it spent as a foreign correspondent witnessing the downside of gridlock...more
The story of news
[video:youtube:3VIdKIBN2Ms] The Washington Times goes inside the Newseum with Newseum Executive Director & Senior Vice President Joe Urschel. He claims the Newseum is the "most interactive museum in the world" The video includes film of an armour plated truck used by TIME Magazine photographers during the war in Bosnia that...more
Wilson heads to Harvard
Frontline club founder member Simon Wilson is taking a one year break from the BBC and his former desk at the Middle East bureau to head to Harvard. He blogs on the BBC Editors blog about his new life and how the decline of the American newspaper industry looks on...more
Lara Logan says "Screw you"
[video:youtube:XK5WIjWXTbU] In an interview published in the Huffington Post today, CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan says her greatest achievement is "being able to say screw you to all the people who said that a woman like me couldn't make it in this business" The piece originally ran in Good...more
Journalist killed in Niger
Within one minute of writing the previous post about journalist fatalities in 2007, we learn that Niger journalist and radio station director Abdou Mahaman has been killed by a landmine in the capital Niamey, He is the third civilian to die in explosions in the south since December, when the...more
That was the year that was
IFEX (International Freedom of eXpression Exchange) reviews 2007 at the sharp end of journalism with differing figures from the Committee to Protect Journalists (65 journalists killed), Reporters without Borders (at least 86 journalists killed), the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (102 journalists killed) and the International Federation of Journalists (171...more
Ross Kemp in Helmand
Ex-soap star Ross Kemp heads to Helmand in a new five-part series. The Guardian has a trailer for the series and background on Organ Grinder, "During one engagement between B Company and the Taliban, we were pinned down by enemy fire in open ground," he says. "Bullets fizzed inches...more
For journalism
BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, Radio France Internationale, Radio Netherlands Worldwide and the Voice Of America issue "an unprecedented joint resolution denouncing what they termed growing trends towards media restrictions and attacks on journalists in many of the countries to which they broadcast." The heads of five of the largest...more
Is our media dying?
[video:youtube:e09PxmPJ-Tg] Not all the indicators agree with the sentiment shown in the Simpsons video, but many of the American ones do....more
Marie Colvin in Basra
Last week Frontline Club member and Sunday Times journalist, Marie Colvin, became the first unembedded western journalist from a British newspaper to visit Basra for nearly two years. She worked under the cover of an abbaya. Nevertheless, Basra is an extremely dangerous place to work unembedded. So much so...more
Somali journalist arrested
Freelance journalist Idle Moallim based in the port city of Bossaso in Somalia has been arrested by police in the northern Puntland region while working on a human trafficking story. The arrest comes less than a month after French journalist Gwen Le Gouil was kidnapped while working on another human...more
Bikinis to Islamabad
Chief foreign correspondent for CBS Lara Logan secured an exclusive with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for the 60 Minutes show, but not all her luggage made it with her from near her hometown in South Africa, The interview capped a frantic week-and-a-half for Ms. Logan, who was vacationing on...more
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad profiled
[video:youtube:JoOmquaRCx8] Menassat, an organisation that promotes good journalism in the Middle East and North Africa, begins a new series profiling arab journalists. Lebanon-based Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, who writes and photographs for The Guardian and has twice been shortlisted for best foreign correspondent of the year by the British Press Awards, is...more
The blogs of war
[video:dailymotion:x29jxt] Broadcast Journalist David Heathfield has a great 8 minute long report on the impact of the internet on how war is reported and who is reporting it in the 21st century. This video offers a good deal of background leading on from our previous post on Reporting restrictions. via...more
The toll of foreign reporting
On today's Desert Island Discs programme, the BBC's Today Programme interviewee frightener John Humphrys admits working as a foreign correspondent takes its toll on family life. Humprhys adds he gave up being a foreign correspondent in 1981 because he was tired as life on the road, "I remember going on...more
Reporting restrictions
Tom Roeder of the Colorado Springs Gazette kicks off his Iraq Notebook blog by uploading a copy of the original reporting restrictions agreement he signed with the US Military before heading to Iraq, It’s fairly rare for reporters, always fond of their constitutional rights, to agree to any government-imposed...more
A Painter of Battles
Novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte draws on his experience as a war reporter in Lebanon, Bosnia, Libya and elsewhere for his latest book, A Painter of Battles. Lorraine Adams reviews it for the New York Times, The hero of “The Painter of Battles,†Andrés Faulques, lives in a 300-year-old tower on...more
From the Frontline club
More words worth listening to... Roy Greenslade's latest episode in the BBC World Service series Press for Freedom begins with Roy at the Frontline club. Who's that laughing at the beginning?...more
Future of foreign reporting
The World podcast discusses the future of the foreign correspondent with HotZone war reporter Kevin Sites, ex-Baltimore Sun reporter John Schidlovsky, David Sasaki of Global Voices, McClatchy's Roy Gutman and Ed Fooey, a media analyst. There is some talk of the 'one man bureaus' we discussed earlier at fromthefrontline. You...more
From Harry Potter to Mogadishu
Daniel Radcliffe, star of the Harry Potter films, is set to portray Reuters war photographer Dan Eldon who was stoned and beaten to death along with Hansi Krauss, Anthony Macharia also from Reuters and Hos Maina from the Associated Press in Mogadishu in July 1993. The film is called...more
Bruce Loudon on being a foreign correspondent
Bruce Loudon has worked as a foreign correspndent since 1968. He is currently The Australian's South Asia correspondent. In today's Australian he ponders the life he leads and the near misses he's missed, Nothing concentrates the mind quite like sitting atop 10 tonnes of lethal ammunition stacked into the belly...more
From Colorado Springs to Baghdad
Colorado Springs Gazette reporter Tom Roeder and photojournalist David Bitton head to Baghdad to report on the 4,000 soliders from the Springs area who are stationed there. The duo will report for the newspaper and will also keep a blog - Iraq Notebook. On reporting from Iraq, the Gazette notes,...more
Miguel Gil Moreno prize announced
The 7th Miguel Gil Moreno journalism prize has just been announced. Journalists of any nationality and working in any medium can apply. However, entries must be translated into Spanish. The deadline in March. Moreno was a freelance correspondent and war reporter. He was killed in Sierra Leone, along with Reuters...more
Fesperman on foreign correspondents
Former Baltimore Sun foreign correspondent and political thriller writer Dan Fesperman talks about his work and how he's glad he's not a newbie starting out in journalism today, It’s depressing. I look around, and you look at the number of foreign bureaus, and they’re fewer every day. The Sun...more
Kate Webb remembered
Journalist and author Steve Le Vine remembers Kate Webb who died in May 2007, It almost didn't matter how many consecutive nights you sat down with Kate for a beer. She had another hair-raising memory to recount, the type of story that -- if it alone had happened to anyone...more
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