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DIED. GLORIA EMERSON, 75, Vietnam reporter for the New York Times and author of Winners & Losers, an award-winning memoir of the war; an apparent suicide; in New York City. One of the few female journalists to cover the war, Emerson later said she went to Vietnam because "they ran out of men." She focused on personal stories of the war, including tales of soldiers dying, which affected her deeply. "It all becomes normal, the other correspondents, men, would say. In time you'll see," she wrote. "They lied." Suffering from Parkinson's disease, she left behind a self-penned...
...DIED. GLORIA EMERSON, 75, New York Times veteran war correspondent known for poignantly chronicling the effect of war on ordinary people in such places as Vietnam, Nigeria and Gaza; of apparent suicide; in New York City. Her book on the aftereffects of the Vietnam War, Winners and Losers, won a National Book Award in 1978. One of the few female journalists to cover the war, Emerson told an interviewer later that she went to Vietnam because "they...
...response around campus was so encouraging that Frommer began to put up posters around campus advertising sales of the shirt. But the real boost came when she was stopped on the street by Kennedy School of Government resident scholar Peter V. Emerson, a friend of the Edwards family. He complimented her shirt and requested that she make four more—for Edwards, his wife and his two young children...
...next day, Emerson called and offered her two tickets to Wednesday evening’s session of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, highlighted by a speech from none other than John Edwards. Frommer brought along roommate Alexandra C. Stanek ’07, both sporting tight, stomach-bearing versions of the shirt...
...hopes to inspire the 18 to 30 demographic to get involved in the political process, volunteer and Emerson College student Jamal A. Barone said...