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Police at roadside checkpoints hold steaming cups of tea in hand. In Wali’s shop, Afghan men sit cross-legged on an elevated floor. Women rarely enter. A glass of tea costs about 10 U.S. cents.
At a time when trust in charities has eroded, the scandal over the Central Asia Institute, the nonprofit founded by Greg Mortenson author of Three Cups of Tea, threatens to cause ... channeled mainly ...
Reporting from Pul-e-Kheshti, Afghanistan — “So, did you have your three cups of tea?” a U.S. infantryman, bulky in body armor, asked another soldier as he emerged from the mud-brick home of ...
the world was praising him as the man deified in “Three Cups of Tea,” a book carefully, even deceptively, crafted to make Mortenson look heroic. For an America at war in faraway Afghanistan ...
Just when you thought there could be no more bad PR for the war in Afghanistan ... Greg Mortenson's best-selling works, Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools is casting doubts not only ...
At times, tea can seem a bit like the military’s secret weapon. A young U.S. officer bonds with an Afghan elder over cups of the brew, and soon they are working side by side to win the locals ...
April 18, 2011— -- The publisher of "Three Cups of Tea" said today it wants to review ... to build dozens of schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. "60 Minutes" also reported in the segment ...
"Three Cups of Tea," the book Relin wrote with Mortenson about Mortenson's efforts to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, was a huge success. There are 5 million copies in print, including ...
CBS' 60 Minutes has broadcast a damaging segment on Greg Mortenson, the author of the New York Times best-seller Three Cups of Tea, alleging that many of the stories in the book are exaggerated or ...
T2 will be showing off their newest flavours all the way from Afghanistan this month by The Afghan Tea Cyclist, who last weekend peddled steaming cups of cardamom-infused black tea on Chapel Street ...