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...developed world who will benefit. With HPV infections a major cause of cervical cancer deaths in the developing world, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has provided almost $28 million to create programs that will eventually provide the vaccine to women in India, Uganda, Peru and Vietnam...
...Other things were, too. Along with the black Royals and the reams of yellow foolscap we’d feed them, The Crimson newsroom of my era had inherited a strong sense of progressive tradition; the campus’s Vietnam-era turmoil was only a couple of four-year cycles behind us. We carried an activist torch, marched for divestiture, and protested the Carter-era revival of draft registration...
...Still, despite the gloomy shift in the political weather, some certainties held strong: We knew that presidential power would never again run amok—Watergate had inoculated the nation against that, once and for all. And however far to the right the U.S. shifted, after Vietnam we knew we’d finally buried the arrogance of power. Never again would Americans invade a nation halfway around the world in order to bestow democracy at gunpoint. Right...
...refight those debates today to a heartbreaking background track of casualty reports, we have one advantage over our forerunners of the Vietnam era: direct access to an open and global communications network. I am happy, and lucky, to have made a journalism career on the Internet; building a news operation on the Web carried fond echoes for me of the years I spent at 14 Plympton Street. In all those late-night basement shifts, pasting up flats in the shop and developing plates for the press, The Crimson had taught me at least one thing: the best way to insure...
...long career at the Times began when, only a month after graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe, she became the first female clerk to renowned columnist James B. Reston.“I think I owe my job to the war in Vietnam,” Greenhouse says. “The guys were not free to take jobs like that because they would be drafted.”Greenhouse describes entering The New York Times’ headquarters for the first time as “stepping into the wilderness.” Without...