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The Brus Book XVIII
Only Berwick remains in English hands; a burgess offers to betray it]
The lordis off the land war fayne
Quhen thai wist he wes cummyn agan
And till him went in full gret hy,
And he ressavit thaim hamlyly
5 And maid thaim fest and glaidsum cher,
And thai sa wonderly blyth wer
Off his come that na man mycht say,
Gret fest and fayr till him maid thai.
Quharever he raid all the countre
10 Gaderyt in daynte him to se,
Gret glaidschip than wes in the land.
All than wes wonnyn till his hand,
Fra the Red Swyre to Orknay
Wes nocht off Scotland fra his fay
15 Outakyn Berwik it allane.
That tym tharin wonnyt ane
That capitane wes of the toun,
All Scottismen in suspicioun
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I've been shot at on numerous occasions.
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Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.
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I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.
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The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
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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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Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
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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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And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
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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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