"It wasn’t just that he was better or faster, or that he spoke Arabic, or that he’d read more books. He was more sensitive, more noticing of the pain of others, than everyone else around him."
- From a tribute to journalist Anthony Shadid, who died in Syria this week. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting, for an article from 2003, “A Boy Who Was ‘Like A Flower’”, and a collection of stories from Iraq in 2009.
02.18.12
