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After graduation, Halberstam joined a small Mississippi daily newspaper, but he continued to file reports for The Crimson from the Deep South. His dispatches were sometimes critical of civil rights activists (see here and here) and may seem outdated to the modern reader. But then again, he was only 21. And while others from the Class of ’55 were working as copy boys at big-city dailies, Halberstam already had set off on his lifetime journey into journalism. “I wanted to report, and I was ready to report, not get coffee for someone else...
...fired shell after shell into Russia's highest legislative body. In the name of democracy, Russia's president had suspended, and now was bombing, his own parliament. And the West mostly went along, convinced that it was necessary to support this flawed leader since the alternatives seemed far worse. Civil war was narrowly avoided. But greatness would elude Yeltsin ever after...
Cherokee members held black slaves until 1865, when they and their Confederate allies were defeated in the Civil War. Following their emancipation, many black “freedmen,” as they are still known, chose to remain among the Cherokee, retaining their cultural heritage. Freedmen were officially recognized as members of the Cherokee Nation in the Final Dawes Rolls, a government effort to determine Native American citizenry. Consequently, Cherokee freedmen, as the Nation continues to label them, have come to identify themselves as citizens endowed with all the rights of the Cherokee. That is, until...
...When I was growing up in Leningrad, we would go down to Georgia and to this town called Sukhumi, which felt like a Soviet Disneyland,” he said in a phone interview with The Crimson. Georgia and many other parts of the former Soviet Union collapsed into civil war after its dissolution, which prevented Shteyngart from returning until just recently. “I was hanging out in a hotel in an oil-rich capital near the Caspian Sea, and all of the local prostitutes would circle around the men asking, ‘Halliburton...
...norm four decades ago; family members, doctors and law enforcement could easily commit troubled souls to psychiatric hospitals with scant paperwork and little concern for individual or privacy rights. When Cho agreed to a voluntary committal to a psychiatric facility in 2005, he was benefiting from the advocacy of civil libertarians who had worked to give mental health patients a say in their treatment...