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...harrowing and, at 15 hours, an endurance contest. But it makes vivid a tale worth retelling. Burns, who briefly swore off war movies after The Civil War, says he's just decided to make a film about Vietnam, although not until its vets are several years older. For now, The War makes the anguish and loss as real as if they were happening today. Which, of course, they...
President George W. Bush rightfully invoked the fiasco that ensued after the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam. If we leave Iraq within the next year, there will be a civil war. If we leave Iraq in four years, there will be a civil war. The difference will be in the number of U.S. troops who will die delaying the inevitable. Staying in Iraq will not achieve an outcome that is worth American lives. We need to face reality and extricate ourselves from Iraq. Most important, we need to turn our attention to al-Qaeda and fight terrorism, our true enemy...
Nguyen, who is founder and chairman of VietnamNet Media Group, will also look at the journalism industry from a business perspective. The graduate of Harvard Business School will devote his semester in Cambridge to researching new media in Vietnam...
...also concerned about the situation at Harvard. Since the social uprisings of the late sixties, Harvard has distanced itself from the military. The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) was banished from Harvard in 1969, the same year as the student takeover of University Hall to protest the Vietnam War. With it went the close ties between Harvard and the military that defined the institution during World War II and even into the Kennedy administration. While bringing ROTC back to campus should not be conflated with studying war, both stem from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ continuing apathy...
...reporters who are on board spend so much time with McCain that we run out of questions about politics. By the time we leave New Hampshire, McCain has started teaching us the tapping code he used to communicate during his time as prisoner of war in North Vietnam...