I've been shot at on numerous occasions.

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The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

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I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.

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Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.

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

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When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.

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Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.

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And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.

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In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.

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My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.

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