Stanford had no journalism program so I… (John Pomfret Quote)

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

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I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.
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I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests.
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I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
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