Here is an excerpt from Day 2's entry entitled "Day 2: The Harmattan and Angelina Jolie: Cinema-Ready Mass Murder?"
"...Just what a "Goodwill Ambassador" is -- and what purpose the whole media circus around them is supposed to serve -- is not entirely clear to me. Is it only possible to draw the attention of the global public to a tragedy, to mass murder such as is occurring in Darfur, when Hollywood stars are flown in for quick visits to refugee camps and then shed tears at a press conference afterwards? I have trouble believing it. But when I ask a high-ranking U.N. official, he merely replies, "That's the way the world is. You have to be realistic."..."Pelda's detailed insights on life among rebel groups and refugees are both chilling and surreal.
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