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...violence get out of hand. But mob bosses may not be able to control their subordinates the way they once did. "If the lower-level yakuza aren't getting any money or any work, they won't listen as well to their bosses," says Benjamin Fulford, a Tokyo-based journalist who writes on the gangs. More than half of yakuza are now classified by police as "associates" rather than fully fledged members; in 1991, only 1 out of 3 yakuza were associates...
...pair of prime examples is The China Fantasy by James Mann, a former Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, and The Writing on the Wall, by British journalist Will Hutton. The two volumes are both nominally about China, but their aims are to influence policy in the West. Their subtitles make that much clearer: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression gets second billing on Mann's book, while Hutton's subtitle is Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy...
...through his long and distinguished career as a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of over twenty books on subjects that varied from baseball to war, Halberstam never lost that passion and drive for journalism—a passion for which he will be revered...
...It’s obvious that he was probably the greatest journalist of his generation. He had a core integrity that gave him credibility and power, whether he was writing about basketball or Vietnam it carried an enormous amount of weight,” said Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist J. Anthony Lewis ’48, a former Crimson managing editor. “He was a sweet man—loyal, kind, thoughtful. I just didn’t know anybody who is a better representation of journalism...
Born April 10, 1934 in the Bronx, N.Y., Halberstam followed his brother Michael to Harvard in 1951 and joined the paper that year, soon proving himself to be an intrepid and astute journalist...