Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenth time in eleven years, the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal (given in memory of a LIFE photographer killed in 1954 in Indochina), awarded "for photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise," went to a photographer on assignment for TIME. Peter Magubane, a black South African, has been covering the violence and tragedy in his country for more than 20 years...
...David Hall, the stories were especially rewarding, since they began with "a rookie reporter looking deeper into a routine story. It was good old-fashioned pick-ax journalism." Hall's peers agreed: the Denver Post series last week won the newspaper world's most coveted honor, the Pulitzer gold medal for public service...
...HAVE NO doubt that the "outrage" chronicled by The Crimson over the proposed Meese medal is genuine. Meese is no sterling example of American dedication to public service, and K-School students know this. The concern of more than 230 students at the school who signed a petition to reconsider the medal is merited and deserves to be aired...
...know that there's a difference between giving a medal and inviting a speaker, but it's only a difference in degree, not kind. In this case they were both positive steps taken by the K-School which conferred--or may yet confer next month, in Meese's case--Harvard's "stamp," if not of approval then at least of acceptance...
...simply naive to argue that Arbatov and his superiors do not treasure these opportunities to stand in front of Western audiences, complete with pinstripes and solemn faces, and lecture on the evils of the U.S. One might even say they value these chances...like a medal...