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...longtime foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, is best known as the author of useful and well-regarded introductions to some of the many worlds he has mastered (The Arabs, The Africans). In Vietnam, Now, he describes how, having covered the war as a journalist in his 20s and returned to witness the fall of Saigon, he went to Hanoi in 1997 to open his paper's bureau there, becoming the only American newspaperman to be based in Vietnam at war and at peace. The opposite of a jaded war correspondent, Lamb captures the country he came to love...
...longtime foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, is best known as the author of useful and well-regarded introductions to some of the many worlds he has mastered (The Arabs, The Africans). In Vietnam, Now, he describes how, having covered the war as a journalist in his 20s and returned to witness the fall of Saigon, he went to Hanoi in 1997 to open his paper's bureau there, becoming the only American newspaperman to cover Vietnam at war and Hanoi at peace. The opposite of a jaded war correspondent, Lamb captures the country he came to love mostly...
...indulgence for strange movies - Oscar Micheaux was born in Metropolis, Ill., in 1884. After various menial jobs he followed Horace Greeley's advice, went West and became a South Dakota homesteader. He lived among whites and, it is said, took a white woman as his lover. In his late 20s he began writing novels; to finance their printing, he went door-to-door, raising funds from his white neighbors. His first self-published, semi-autobiographical novel, "The Homesteader," appeared in 1913. When black film outfits sprang up after "The Birth of a Nation," Micheaux offered his novel to the Lincoln...
...Israeli army thin. By March 30, Israeli troops were already occupying Ramallah and Bethlehem. On Monday, April 1, they would go into Tulkarem and Qalqilya. The elite Paratroop Brigade was poised outside Nablus. The 5th Brigade, scheduled for Jenin, was made up of reservists mostly in their late 20s and early 30s, but the brass thought they could handle the tough assignment. "There were indications it was going to be hard," says Major General Dan Harel, the army's operations chief. "But we didn't think it was going to be so hard." The soldiers were supposed to head...
...will not be because of our jobs but because we chose not to settle for Mr. Second Best." Chicagoan Rochelle Kopp agreed that "more attention needs to be paid to the role of men. Why do they fear successful women? Why are they afraid of commitment? Why, during their 20s and early 30s--the best time for their female peers to have babies--are so many men too immature to take on the responsibility?" And Meredith Lair of Lemont, Pa., craved something more than our reporting could deliver. "Most women I know are thoroughly aware of the fertility difficulties...