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NYT Photographer Tyler Hicks on Track to Win Another Pulitzer
Plug “Tyler Hicks Pulitzer Prize” into the Googletron and here’s what pops up. Hicks in in Ukraine right now doing what he does so amazingly well. Here’s part of what he captured for yesterday’s New York Times. Here at the … Continue reading
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C.J. Chivers (Rhymes With Shivers) Is One Helluva Writer
On a beautiful sun-dappled afternoon last May, I sat on a bench in Square Henri Galli, a Paris pocket park across the Seine from Île Saint Louis, and while des enfants frolicked about, read a New York Magazine article that … Continue reading
NYT Mikhail Kalashnikov Obit Omits Most Important Fact
Mikhail Kalashnikov, father of the AK-47, is dead at the age of 94. From the New York Times obituary by C. J. Chivers: His role in the rifle’s creation, and the attention showered on him by the Kremlin’s propaganda machine, … Continue reading
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C.J. Chivers, Rhymes With Shivers (Syrian Rebel ‘Dark Side’ Edition)
The New York Times’s redoubtable war correspondent C.J. Chivers filed yet another riveting story on Friday’s front page. American Sees Dark Side of Syrian Rebels Matthew Schrier was helpless. An American photographer held in a rebel-controlled prison in the Syrian … Continue reading
C.J. Chivers: Rhymes With Shivers (‘Death Highway’ Edition)
From our Late to the (Syrian Rebel) Party desk New York Times war correspondent C.J. Chivers produces boots-on-the-ground reporting as well as any journalist of his generation, and his Friday piece is no exception. In Syrian Clash Over ‘Death Highway,’ a Bitterly … Continue reading
NYT’s C.J. Chivers (Rhymes With Shivers) Captures Syrian Armed Rebels
Yesterday’s New York Times featured a Page One piece that further cements the status of C.J. Chivers in the God-Damned Infantry Hall of Fame alongside Ernie Pyle and Bill Mauldin. Life With Syria’s Rebels in a Cold and Cunning War … Continue reading
Anthony Shadid, R.I.P.
The world lost a great journalist when New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid died all too soon yesterday in Syria. That he was in Syria at all tells you much of what you need to know about this intrepid war-and-peace … Continue reading
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C.J. Chivers, As In Shivers (Libyan Burial Edition)
The latest from incomparable New York Times reporter C.J. Shivers: Libyan City Buries Its Attackers Respectfully MISURATA, Libya — The gravediggers worked methodically and with few words. By now their grisly labor was a routine. The corpses of the soldiers … Continue reading
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C.J. Chivers, As In Shivers (Misurata Edition)
Absolutely stunning depiction by New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers of rocket attacks on the Libyan town of Miseryata: The Lives at the End of the Rockets’ Arc MISURATA, Libya — The four fresh corpses, the remains of people recently … Continue reading
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C.J. Chivers, As In Shivers (Libya Edition II)
Yet another riveting dispatch from New York Times correspondent C.J. Chivers, this time about life (and death) in a medical tent in Libya: In the battle for Misurata, a rebel holdout city under attack by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces for months, … Continue reading
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