Dayton Daily News, December 14th, 2002
There's never an Uzbek around when you need one.
Well, okay, there are 25 million in Uzbekistan. But in a silly cost-control move, the paper refused to fund a trip to Tashkent or Samarkand, so I was left desperately trying to find a native of the former Soviet Republic closer to home. It turns out we're a tad short of Uzbeks in these parts.
I sought an Uzbek or two because of What the World Thinks in 2002, a survey of 38,000 people around the globe sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trust. The survey got a lot of American coverage recently, but, being the very self-absorbed nation we are, almos...
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