Word: diem
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According to David L. Halberstam ’55, who shared the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting with Malcolm W. Browne of the Associated Press for coverage of the early years of the Vietnam War and the fall of the Diem government, journalism experienced a shift in the 1950s and 1960s...
Halberstam’s coverage of the war and the overthrow of the Diem government won him the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He shared that prize with Malcolm W. Browne of the Associated Press...
...Harvie's existential angst, it's all about Adam. "I've struggled with the meaning of life over the years," admits Elliot, who dropped out of graphic-design school to sell T shirts for five years at the St. Kilda markets. Then, like Harvie, he had a carpe diem call - and seized the day by enrolling in film at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1996. (Elliott's friend and former classmate Glendyn Ivin took out the Palme d'Or for short film at Cannes last year with another deadpan tale about a suburban misfit, Cracker...
...openly asking how far the corruption went and who might be the next government figure to be arrested. After 6 months of that, the government decided that openness about official corruption might not be in the Party's best interest. On June 2002, Vietnam's ideology chairman, Nguyen Khoa Diem, ordered newspapers to tone it down. "They're afraid people are losing their faith in the government," explains a Vietnamese journalist...
According to an e-mail sent to BIDMC employees on Wednesday, the debt reduction and other improvements have resulted in decreasing the medical center’s overall per-diem cost of serving a patient by about 15 percent in the two years...