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...native of Taiwan, was named one of the 25 annual recipients of the no-strings-attached $500,000 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship—popularly known as the “genius grant”—and has since made important contributions to the study of quantum mechanics, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics...
Mydans was released in time to cover the fighting in Italy and France, then accompanied General Douglas MacArthur's campaign in the Philippines, where he took one of the war's best-known shots: Mac Arthur sloshing onto the beach at Luzon. For a home front with fresh memories of the war's bleak beginnings, it was more than a picture; it was an encapsulation of every hope. Forty years later, we see not just the redoubtable general but also the canny military showman who knows that victory is the ultimate photo opportunity...
West Point loftily answers the critics by summoning up its warrior ghosts: Grant, Lee, Pershing, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton. "These kids," Commandant Boylan grandly declares of the current crop of cadets, "are the bearers of the crucible of all that is good...
...Should the Bomb have been used against Japan? There's no simple answer. [General Douglas] MacArthur once spoke to me very eloquently about it, pacing the floor of his apartment in the Waldorf. He thought it a tragedy that the Bomb was ever exploded. MacArthur believed that the same restrictions ought to apply to atomic weapons as to conventional weapons, that the military objective should always be limited damage to noncombatants...
...have bombed Germany, and we would not have made earlier strikes against Japan. Remember, at least 35,000 were killed in one night in Dresden. Our fire bombing of Tokyo [in March 1945] killed 83,000 in a single night. They all were deliberate bombings of civilian areas. MacArthur, you see, was a soldier. He believed in using force only against military targets, and that is why the nuclear thing turned him off, which I think speaks well...