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Following graduation, Halberstam journeyed south to cover the beginnings of the civil rights movement before joining The New York Times and reporting from Washington, the Congo, and South Vietnam...
Halberstam also wrote more than 20 books covering topics from the Civil Rights movement to basketball...
RIGHT AT THE END Heston's political beliefs followed a familiar trajectory - one that had been traced by a previous SAG president, Ronald Reagan - of liberal Democrat turned conservative Republican. In the early 60s he was a civil rights advocate, and accompanied Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1963 March on Washington. He opposed Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, and in 1968, after Robert Kennedy's assassination, he called for gun controls. He rejected a plea from prominent Democrats to run for the U.S. Senate only because, unlike Reagan when he segued into politics, Heston still...
...more on its military, its economy booming, its financial power overseas growing," says Wenran Jiang, director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta. "But when Chinese leadership looks at the country they see the exact opposite: weaknesses everywhere from Tibet to Xinjiang, to rising inflation and civil unrest, environmental disasters and corruption. So the overall mentality of the central authorities is very insecure and nervous." Jiang argues that the only way to move toward a solution in Tibet is to negotiate with the Dalai Lama. But he says leaders are now trapped by their own words, which have...
After the Iowa primary, for example, Hillary Clinton seemed to give President Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed civil rights legislation into law, more credit for progress than Martin Luther King Jr.'s "dream" - a perceived stand-in for Obama's "hope." When that drew negative attention among black voters, Bill Clinton made the rounds defending his wife's statements on more than three syndicated black talk radio programs in one day. "Ironically, the use of black radio by the Clinton campaign has been in giving Bill Clinton airtime to denounce Obama," says Richard Prince, an online media commentator. "During South...