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‘Three Cups of Tea,’ Spilled

One of the people I’ve enormously admired in recent years is Greg Mortenson. He’s a former mountain climber who, after a failed effort to climb the world’s second-highest mountain, K2, began building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

In person, Greg is modest, passionate and utterly disorganized. Once he showed up half-an-hour late for a speech, clumping along with just one shoe — and then kept his audience spellbound with his tale of building peace through schools.

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/opinion/21kristof.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212

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New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof calls on Americans to act at Montana State University Leadership Institute Event – He inspires MSU students to save the world http://matr.net/article-36311.html

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