.... my hope always is to reach various audiences by presenting issues from a different perspective so that readers can assess facts without being encumbered by the pains that come with proximity. When I write about the struggles of Ethiopians and how a few are taking most while most live mired in abject indigence, it is my hopes that my fellow Americans not only understand the suffering of my people back home but also connect our struggles here in America to the injuries people feel in distant corners of the world. --Teodrose Fikre