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...recent documentary about Yale secret societies, The Skulls, has left many Harvard visitors worried. Apparently, the campus is fraught with pistol dueling, journalist killing, Provost-initiated vehicular manslaughter and Craig T. Nelson...
Elfenbein finds it disappointing that “often the only edge to the story that journalists could see was the opportunity for sticking it to Harvard.” All PSLM members interviewed for this story complained that often the focus of media coverage was not the plight of campus workers, but instead the thought of Harvard students skipping classes and generally defying the Ivy Leaguer stereotype. Elfenbein ruefully accounts her experiences with one journalist, who exclaimed “Wow! It must really smell in there!” as being representative of a typically superficial attitude lacking...
...mood on the roof was languid. Our heavily armed escorts forgot about their weapons and engaged in the usual journalist-watching - it's sitting up, it's lying down, it's playing with a computer. Patrick Forestier of Paris-Match had a sudden, rare urge to do some work, became disoriented, and tried to interview Franchetti, mistaking him in the dark for a mujahideen. There really are Taliban all around, I had to keep reminding myself, but no one seems to care...
...tried to escape the ambush, another group of Taliban opened up on it from a different position. Bashir was on the radio asking for backup. Finally some of his scouts arrived and brought out the survivors. One journalist, Johanne Sutton, was shot multiple times in the leg and chest, and she died before they could get her to the clinic in Dashti Qala, which is about 3 miles away from the frontline. Two other journalists - Volker and Pierre Billaud of RTL Radio - had been left behind. According to an Afghan interpreter who was with them, they were injured...
...passed the first two trench lines without incident, but as it reached the third, some Taliban emerged from a hidden position to their right. "A group of Taliban popped up on our right - six, eight of them," says Levon Sevunts, a journalist for the Montreal Gazette who survived the encounter. "They opened fire on the APC from the right - rifle fire...