Nicholas Kristof
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Journalist, author, columnist
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#563
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#186
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Journalism
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#89
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#58
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Linguistics
#980
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#1251
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#278
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Donabet Kristof is an American journalist and political commentator. A winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he is a regular CNN contributor and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. Born in Chicago, Kristof was raised in Yamhill, Oregon, the son of two professors at nearby Portland State University. After graduating from Harvard University, where he wrote for The Harvard Crimson, Kristof intermittently interned at The Oregonian. He joined the staff of The New York Times in 1984.