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...interviews. You might give back by helping recruit the best talent for Harvard. The biggest problem with your intentions is the fact that they are just that, intentions. Your efforts are being delayed like a Continental Airlines flight. Do you think that Horace advised everyone “Carpe Diem!” for nothing? The last approach is the best of all approaches. It’s the Johnnie Walker Blue Label of approaches, or the pocket rockets, Ace-10-10 on the flop, and another Ace on the turn. In any case, this approach involves your being active...
...says Streep, laughing to herself. “It’s bravado directing.” Of course, some themes intentionally make the final cut of “A Prairie Home Companion.” A persistent carpe-diem message pervades the film; characters learn not to focus on the past—“there is no silence in radio,” one points out—and that in the future lingers uncertainly. At the same time, the audience sympathizes with the outdated variety show, and its closing, the end of an era, implies...
Right-wing tyrants have a history of playing us for suckers: South Viet Nam's Diem, the Shah of Iran and Chile's Augusto Pinochet. Now add Ferdinand Marcos. The repressive rule of these leaders, with their human-rights violations, economic inequality and police-state justice, invariably creates armed internal opposition. We should drop President Marcos like a hot potato. Gary Fox Oxford, Ohio...
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...