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...Several years ago, a reporter named Gregory Vistica, who worked for Newsweek at the time, got wind of a big story. A former commander had heard from a troubled SEAL that his unit, led by the young Kerrey, had been involved in a Vietnam raid that went horribly wrong. Vistica pursued the tale until he turned up the Navy's dusty "after action" reports on the events of Feb. 25, 1969, in the isolated peasant village of Thanh Phong. Late in 1998, when Kerrey was contemplating a second run for the presidency, the reporter put those 30-year-old documents...
...Possibly the most widely anticipated release this summer, producer Jerry Bruckheimer's Pearl Harbor is a $135 million epic story about a certain air raid that plunged our nation into WWII. Like Titanic, it features a love triangle (between the very attractive Kate Beckinsale and hunks Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett), shots of ships sliding perpendicularly into the sea, as well as awe-inspiring special effects; where the movie should really shine, is not only the imagery of flaming wreckage littering the Hawaiian landscape, but also the truly haunting sight of warplanes flying so close to the ground that baseball...
...Immediately after the raid, Putin unexpectedly flew to Chechnya to discuss reconstruction and other issues. The President has commented only sparingly on the NTV case, and he did not deviate from that practice in Chechnya. Indeed, if Putin's past behavior is any guide, the trip was intended to distance him as far as possible from the NTV crisis. Tellingly, a correspondent for the new NTV who accompanied the President did not ask him about...
...Ironically, the raid was so clumsily timed that it hardened resistance among NTV journalists just as they were showing signs of ending their occupation of the studios. The main friction was caused by editor-in-chief Yevgeny Kiselev, idolized by some colleagues and seen by others as imperious and abrasive. Some top journalists had been trying to reach a compromise with the government. One, popular presenter Svetlana Sorokina, thought the talks were going well. Instead came the raid, which left even some of NTV's enemies wondering whether the President had silenced a critic or created a new opposition force...
...legacy of 1969 is likely to weigh heavily on current administrators. Illingworth, who was then an undergraduate, watched the police raid from the steps of Widener and the subsequent treatment of injured students by emergency workers...