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...serving as a foreign correspondent in Africa, Halberstam was sent to Vietnam to cover the ongoing conflict, making him one of the first full-time Western newspaper journalists working in the country. His coverage of the war and the overthrow of the Diem government won him the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. But this coverage also drew death threats from those opposed to his unflattering depictions of American involvement in Vietnam...
...executive editor of The Crimson and a magna cum laude graduate of the College. As a reporter in The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, he covered politics, economics, and budget issues. Three of his stories on the welfare system were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1997. Georges also served as editor of The Washington Monthly and worked at CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He died in 1998 at age 33 from complications related to lupus...
...exercises today at 2 p.m., and will be serving as the class marshal for his class’s 25th reunion ceremonies. Key KSG administrators have expressed their pleasure with the selection of Kristof, who joins Donna E. Shalala, the former secretary of health and human services and Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a Lamont University professor emeritus, on the roster of KSG commencement speakers past and present. “Kristof understands the importance of storytelling as a means for bringing the struggles of the world into the living rooms of America,” said Sarah B. Sewell...
...time Pulitzer prize winning journalist, who brought his young daughter with him to the event, opened his remarks with an account of how the younger Kristof had expressed a desire to go see former president Bill Clinton—on hand for Class Day ceremonies at the College—instead of listen to her father...
...that lecturing does not provide much, if any, opportunity for students to assimilate the information presented. And so students concentrate on being able to answer the type of questions they will be examined on. Yet education is more about asking questions than giving answers. Upon receiving the Nobel prize, Isidor Rabi attributed his becoming an inquiring scientist to his mother, who would always ask him after school: “Izzy, did you ask a good question today...