Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Anthony Shadid
Born: September 26, 1968
Died: February 16, 2012 (aged 43)
Bio: Anthony Shadid was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times based in Baghdad and Beirut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting twice, in 2004 and 2010.
Known for:
- Night Draws Near (2005)
- Legacy of the Prophet (2001)
- Ordinary Lives (2009)