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COSTS OF WAR.

May 16, 2007

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COSTS OF WAR. An American soldier's life: $250,000. An Iraqi civilian's life: $500. Crushing terrorism and building democracy: Priceless.

--Ann Friedman

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Ann Friedman is an editor and writer. Formerly the executive editor of GOOD, she’s now hard at work on a crowd-funded magazine called Tomorrow and is a politics columnist for NYmag.com. She curates the work of women journalists at LadyJournos!, makes hand-drawn pie charts for The Hairpin, and dispenses animated advice at the Columbia Journalism Review. In July 2012, CJR named her one of 20 women to watch.

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