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Before he made his name as a high-profile journalist, Brady was a line Marine lieutenant who had to keep his head down and his feet warm. He is now waging war on two fronts. His new novel, based on his Korean War experience, hits the racks at the same time as a reissue of his 1990 combat memoir, The Coldest War. Nearly 37,000 American troops died in Korea, where the winters were as deadly as the enemy. Both novel and memoir are graphic reminders of what has been called the Forgotten War. But not by Brady...
...qualms about Hiroshima should fade after reading James Bradley's Flags of Our Fathers (Bantam; 376 pages; $24.95). With the help of Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Ron Powers, Bradley rediscovers the carnage of Iwo Jima through the stories of the flag raisers. His father is the one in the center of the photo, the only man whose face can be seen...
...JOURNALIST, HEAL THYSELF! An analysis of 180 newspaper articles and 27 television reports diagnoses health coverage as inadequate. Among the shortcomings: 85% of the stories used statistics that exaggerated a drug's benefit. (A report might say, for example, that an osteoporosis drug can reduce the risk of hip fractures by 50%, but not say that without it fractures occur in only 2 out of 100 people.) More than half the coverage also failed to mention harmful side effects. Omitted too was other important info, like financial ties between researchers and drug companies. Implicit message: quiz those doctors harder...
...course, on Commencement Day, with thousands of parents and alumni in attendance, there is much that could be said. In many respects it is an editorialist's dream come true--the audience, the timing all beg for some final salvo of criticism. But, even a journalist must occasionally step down from his pedestal of observation and join in the celebration...
...Journalist Nicholas B. Lemann '76, in his book The Big Test: The Secret History of American Meritocracy, credits University President James B. Conant '14 with founding the concept...