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A force for good: Samantha Power is driven by a deep sense of idealism

21 December 2019

9:00 AM

21 December 2019

9:00 AM

In the spring of 2008 I spent a fine day in the company of Samantha Power. She had come to the Hay Festival to talk about Chasing the Flame, her book about Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN Special Representative to Iraq who was murdered in the August 2003 bombing of UN offices in Baghdad, who was Power’s colleague and friend.

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