Fieldnotes on Humanity

I just opened up my twitter account and tweeted Greg Mortenson , the author of the well-known book “Three Cups of Tea”: “What's up Greg? It seems your Three Cups of Tea spilled over dirt. I never heard of your schools in Afghanistan. Why is that?” Last night, the 60 minutes report, raised questions on the accuracy of the Three Cups of Tea. According to CBS , the show "also checked on schools that Central Asia Institute claims to have built in Pakistan and Afghanistan and found that some of them were empty, built by somebody else, or simply didn't exist at all. The principals of a number of schools said they had not received any money from Central Asia Institute in years." CBS also said that the dramatic stories in the best-selling "Three Cups of Tea" have become the source of speeches Mortenson is paid to make and the partial basis of nearly $60 million in donations to the charity he founded. In 2009, while I was at Duke University on a media fellowship pro...