Category: Peace Corps
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Backgammon in Iran
This episode of the SoftPower/FulStories podcast features John Limbert’s experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer and diplomat in Iran.
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World Cup Action: South Korea v Czechia
“Let us hope that other nations will mobilize the spirit and energies and skill of their people in some form of Peace Corps.” -JFK
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Book Review: Living the World Cup
Kaffen writes from authority, having attended seven World Cup gatherings hosted by Mexico, the United States, France, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, and Qatar.
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Listen: A Conversation at Rotary
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The Peace Corps builds a diplomatic service steeped in cultural, linguistic, and technical skills useful for effective advocacy of U.S. interests abroad.
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Library Time
I’m grateful to the Fairfax County Public Library for adding Profiles in Service: Peace Corps Roots in American Diplomacy, their—our!—catalogue.
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Sargent Shriver’s Memoir
Shriver’s memoir offers lessons on the price of overconfidence in brute power abroad vs pragmatic idealism at home.
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Book Review: Revenge of the Seawolf
Mystery and adventure will keep readers turning the pages, and Theroux adds rich layers of historic detail, authenticity, and curiosity to the narrative.
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Speaking of Writing
They welcomed me for a chat about about the Peace Corps, life in the Foreign Service, and my recent book, Profiles in Service.
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Gratitude and Storytelling
The past is glibly overwritten, the present maliciously falsified, and we must fight back with the truth by sharing our stories.
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Launch Day
The writer is greedy, demanding, insistent. Each word must lead the reader to the end of a sentence, a paragraph, a page.
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