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Freshman and Harvard Olympian Jaclyn Pangilinan took first in the 100-yard breaststroke, and was edged in the 200-yard by sophomore LeeAnn Chang...
DIED. IRIS CHANG, 36, historian whose landmark 1997 best seller The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II chronicled the grisly rape, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital in the late 1930s; a suicide; near Los Gatos, Calif. Chang, whose book was the first full-length nonfiction account of the brutality, said, "I didn't care if I made a cent from it. I wrote it out of a sense of rage." She was hospitalized for depression earlier this year as she was researching...
...IRIS CHANG, who died last week of an apparent suicide, once asked a profound question: How could a brutal massacre in a Chinese city in World War II, in which the Japanese army killed thousands of people?a death toll possibly even higher than that of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?have been relegated to a historical footnote? Driven to find the answer, Chang wrote The Rape of Nanking, a landmark work of history that helped push the 1937 bloodbath into the public's consciousness and the then-29-year-old American to the forefront of nonfiction writing...
Freshman Amanda Slaight also went on to lead a 1-2 win for Harvard in her first collegiate race, taking first place in her signature event, the 100-yard breaststroke just 0.25 seconds ahead of last year’s standout freshman, LeeAnn Chang...
...DIED.IRIS CHANG, 36, American historian whose 1997 best seller The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II chronicled the grisly rape, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital in the late 1930s; of suicide; near Los Gatos, California. Chang, whose book was the first full-length nonfiction account of the brutality, said, "I didn't care if I made a cent from it. I wrote it out of a sense of rage." She was hospitalized for depression earlier this year as she was researching her fourth...