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...Bogert was as fearless before before power brokers as she was before tanks, another friend remembered...
...University currently has very limited, in a strange way, ambitions for itself in the world,” Bogert said in an interview with The Crimson. “I think the message of HASA is a positive one: Harvard should grow, reach, and be a leader around the world...
...After graduating from Harvard with a master’s degree in East Asian Studies in 1985, Bogert bought a one-way ticket to China. She quickly found a job with The Washington Post’s Beijing Bureau as what she calls the “eyes and ears” of the correspondents. Eventually, she moved on to Newsweek, first as a freelance stringer and then as a staff reporter...
...colleague Jonathan Mirsky described Bogert as fearless when they covered the Tiananmen Square protests together...
...Mirsky described one day when protests were gearing up and Bogert convinced him and two female correspondents to bribe a taxi driver to take them to the countryside outside Beijing, where she had heard there was a column of tanks in a village. When they saw the tanks, Bogert proposed climbing atop them to ask the soldiers inside why they were in the village...