First international cricket match11/5/2022 ![]() ![]() We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. ![]() We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. But for some women, it’s an economic opportunity.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: In Kenya, some consider the country’s new ban on plastic bags a hardship or an inconvenience. “What can one say to Sri Lanka except a huge ‘thank you’?” Pakistani cricket fan Afia Salaam told Al Jazeera. When the Sri Lankan players entered the stadium, Pakistani spectators were on their feet cheering, displaying Sri Lankan flags and posters with welcoming messages. But Sri Lankan cricket star Thisara Perera and the second-string Sri Lankan team agreed to attend. Most of Sri Lanka’s first-string players refused to go. That is, until last month, when a match was scheduled between Pakistan and Sri Lanka – in Lahore. Since then, no major national cricket team has played a Test match (a form of cricket recognized by the International Cricket Council) in Pakistan. Eight players were killed and seven wounded. In 2009, the Sri Lankan national cricket team was attacked by terrorists while in Lahore for a match. In Lahore, Pakistan, cricket fans stood in line for hours to see the first international cricket match in their country in eight years. ![]()
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