“Up until that moment, a part of her had hoped that China would be just as poor as North Korea. She still wanted to believe that her country was the best place in the world. The beliefs she had cherished for a lifetime would be vindicated. But now she couldn’t deny what was staring her plainly in the face: dogs in China ate better than doctors in North Korea.”
― Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
― Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
“Nobody really understood the statistical universe. It was all just shoveling it down the line. Then we had a check for things like subset abuse. Like rape-one is a subset of all rape, so you can’t have more rape-ones than you have rapes.”
― Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop
― Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop
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