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...next evening TIME was cited for its achievements in photojournalism. For the ninth time in ten years, a photographer on assignment for TIME won the O.P.C.'s esteemed Robert Capa Gold Medal "for best photographic reporting or interpretation from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise." For the second year in a row, the winner was James Nachtwey. Said Nachtwey, who is on assignment in Nicaragua, in a prepared statement read for him: "Everyone with whom I have gone into the field owns a piece of this award...
FOOTNOTE: *The Capa medal is named for a LIFE photographer killed in Indochina in 1954. Rebbot was fatally wounded in El Salvador on a 1981 assignment for Newsweek...
Holocaust survivor and historian Elic Wiesel was not afraid to tell Reagan of his disappointment as he accepted the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement on Friday. His words explained eloquently the mistake of forgetting, which is analogous to the U.S.'s failure to act when it knew what was happening in 1941: "in extreme situations when human lives and dignity are at stake, neutrality is a sin. It helps the killers, not the victims." To put the past behind us is to negate its impact, to assume neutrality...
Last year, the Big Green handed Radcliffe its only loss, and beat out the heavies for the silver medal at the Eastern Sprints...
Reagan's decision to avoid the subject of the Holocaust next month is particularly troubling in the face of such blatant, dangerous revisionism. As he plans his trip, Reagan should heed the words of writer and camp survivor Elie Weisel, on whom he will bestow the Congressional medal of honor this week. Of his teenage years spent in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Weisel wrote in his autobiographical account, Night, "Never shall I forget these things even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself." While Reagan's plea to "look to the future...