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Closing ceremonies

By Scott Wallick | Published: Feb 1, 2004
I was in Birtamod just after the Thanksgiving trip to Kolkata. I was having lunch with two guys from the Peace Corps office in Washington, DC. They were security. On guy told me that he had been doing, well, military intelligence in Somalia for a several years before retiring and coming to work for the Peace Corps. He told me that when Peace Corps has had to evacuate its volunteers from a country, it's usually because of families calling the office. Or a senator.
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Back in the saddle, again

By Scott Wallick | Published: Jun 20, 2003
I'd only just passed through customs in San Francisco when I heard a page for Kumar Shrestha. Kumar Shrestha, please pick up the blue courtesy phone. First impulse was to go to the Delta counter that had paged him and sit around to wait for him, shouting, Bala du?. I didn't. Instead I bought a newspaper and a coffee to pass the three-hour layover.
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