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jacket and goes off to apply for a job as a security guard at a five-star hotel. There he is mistaken for a journalist and whisked into a press banquet, one of many held in today's China to launch everything from[an error occurred while processing this directive] literacy campaigns to property developments. After a splendid meal - with an envelope of cash "for your troubles" - Dan has a revelation: all he needs to continue this charmed life is a fake business card and a nonexistent website. Thus begins Dan's career in journalism - and Geling Yan's shark...
...Conjuring them up among today's neat French farms was harder than on the barren cliffs of Anzac Cove. "You almost think, This couldn't be a killing ground, it's too pretty," says Carlyon, 64. A journalist of the old school, he believes in seeing what you write about. With history, he must be content to recreate things, like a detective at a crime scene. "You try to redraw the landscape," he writes. "You try to draw in trench lines ... and khaki bundles hung up on barbed wire." Near Ypres, he watched archaeologists probe the spot where...
...with the men he wrote about than with his friends. "Reading their letters, you get to know them," he says, "and in a funny way it makes you very sad when you find out they're going to die." He was especially fond of Philip Schuler, a handsome, talented journalist who went to Gallipoli as a war correspondent, then enlisted in the Army and was sent to France. Writing home from Messines, he signed off: "Keep on remembering." Four days later, he was killed. "There were so many like him that we lost," Carlyon says. They belong to "a lost...
...that the consulate and the museum joined to host the event, according to deputy consul Rodrigo Marquez. The Peabody includes extensive collections of Mayan and Aztec artifacts. Death was on the minds of both the puppeteers and the protesters. Several of the latter mentioned Bradley Roland Will, an activist-journalist from New York who was killed in Oaxaca last month as he sought to film clashes between demonstrators and pro-government groups. Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, a Crimson editorial editor and former opinion columnist who carried a cross with Will’s name written...
...hard to overstate just how much the Abu Ghraib scandal still resonates with Iraqis. As a journalist, I am constantly reminded of it by Iraqis I meet-whether in the high offices of the Green Zone or in the streets of Baghdad. Those who resent the U.S. presence in Iraq never tire of using it as a flogging horse; even today, statements and videos issued by insurgent groups and jihadi organizations routinely cite Abu Ghraib, along with Haditha and Mahmoudiya, as proof of America's malign intentions in Iraq. Sgt Cardona's return "will give the insurgents another pretext...