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MICHAEL KORDA I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'... MICHAEL MOORE I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i... MICHAEL PATERNITI Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot... MICHAEL PATERNITI I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful. MICHAEL LANDES Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge ... MICHAEL PATERNITI I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were... MICHAEL BERGIN Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of ge... MICHAEL POLLAN Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. ... MICHAEL GREGER I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudo... MICHAEL BOND I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in... MICHAEL STRAHAN Pressed by the Obama administration and consumers, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell and General Mills,... MICHAEL MOSS I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth. MICHAEL GOVE I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front li... MICHAEL CONNELLY I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a sy... MICHAEL PHELPS Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic ... MICHAEL MOORE Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel exclude... MICHAEL MEDVED One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if... MICHAEL KORDA Like most people, I find watching the lazy and quiet underwater realm of a big aquarium exceptionall... MICHAEL DIRDA The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. ... MICHAEL WEATHERLY All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the re... MICHAEL LEUNIG