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Saturday, June 16, 2007 12:00 AM

My hapless African rebel

A funny thing happened on my way to civil war in Ethiopia -- I met Reagan, and I would never see guerrilla rebels the same way again.
By Nick Wadhams

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  • Saturday, June 16, 2007 01:45 PM

    To be fair to the Author..

    As a freelance journalist, I've been in his place. I've invested a lot of time and effort and my own money to get to a distant locale only to find I couldn't get the story I'd set out to tell. I've stuck it out as long as I could, then made the difficult decision to leave. And then I've looked around for another story, any story I could sell to help cover my expenses. After seeing Nick's very public humiliation here I can say thank God I never found a Salon willing to buy and publish my piece on the scam artists of Berlin's Gypsy flea markets.

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