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...nearness of World War II also meant that members of the Class of 1953 knew many veterans—and many stories about the war—and so did not hold many illusions about the grim reality of combat...
...that made photographer friends of mine wince. It was not Henry Huet's eerie shot of a U.S. paratrooper's corpse being winched up to a medevac helicopter. Nor was it Larry Burrows' celebrated photo of a young soldier weeping for dead colleagues after his first day of bloody combat. No, it was a much simpler photo: of a mangled Leica camera, probably Burrows', unearthed from a Lao hillside where he, Huet and two other legendary combat photographers-Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto-died in a helicopter crash in 1971. As one friend shuddered, "If that's what happened...
...chapter-size biographies reveal, three of the four photographers not only died in a combat zone but grew up in one. The peerless Burrows, who lived through London's Blitz, would surprise young U.S. Army photographers he worked alongside in Vietnam by always bringing pajamas to the front. The fearless Huet, who grew up in Nazi-occupied France, once returned to Saigon bleeding from a shrapnel wound but famously dropped off his film at his agency's office before seeking treatment. As a boy, Shimamoto watched American B-29 incendiary bombers weave through flak above nighttime Tokyo (a "beautiful sight...
...whether or not current students deserve these grades is not a question: “the same degree of smarts now gets higher grades than it did [when I was an undergrad].” So Jasanoff, like many other department chairs, has been pushing his professors to combat grade inflation...
...many Slovaks. FREE AT LAST ALGERIA Seventeen European tourists held hostage for three months by Islamic militants in the Western Sahara were freed by Algerian commandos after a gunfight that left one soldier and at least four kidnappers dead. Military officials said that the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) were responsible for the kidnappings. Germany's intelligence service says the group has never targeted civilians, and one of the hostages said the kidnappers wanted money. Members of Germany's élite counterterrorism unit continue to work with Algerian authorities seeking release of the remaining 15 hostages. NO RELEASE...