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We are told by careful pollsters that half of the American people believe that American troops should be brought home from Iraq immediately. This news discourages supporters of our efforts there. Not me, though: I am relieved. Given press coverage of our efforts in Iraq, I am surprised that 90 percent of the public do not want us out right now. Between January 1 and September 30, 2005, nearly 1,400 stories appeared on the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news. More than half focused on the costs and problems of the war, four times as many as those that discussed...

In the days following the death of David Halberstam on April 23, praise of his journalism appeared in just about every major newspaper and magazine in America. Adhering to the principle of de mortuis, I did not interrupt the paeans with remarks about Halberstam’s gross misdeeds in Vietnam, which I had exposed in a book last year. But now that the funeral period has ended, the media has made clear that Halberstam’s elevation to the status of national hero is intended to be permanent, so in the interest of national history it has become necessary to point out how much...

Author David Halberstam dies in crash By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer 23 minutes ago SAN FRANCISCO - David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, was killed in a car crash early Monday, a coroner said. He was 73. ADVERTISEMENT Halberstam, a New Yorker, was a passenger in a car that was broadsided by another vehicle in Menlo Park, south of San Francisco, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said. The accident occurred around 10:30 a.m., and the driver of the car carrying Halberstam identified him as the victim,...

Author David Halberstam was killed today in a three-car accident in Menlo Park, authorities said.

When 16-year-old Ari Halberstam was murdered on the Brooklyn Bridge, more than 10,000 people gathered in Crown Heights to mourn him. For Ari's mother, however, the 1994 slaying marked a new beginning as one of the country's foremost anti-terror advocates. "It was the dividing line between who I was and who I am," says Devorah Halberstam. "I'm a totally different person." Ari's murderer, Rashid Baz, a Lebanese national who said he targeted a van full of Hassidic youth in retaliation for Baruch Goldstein's massacre of 29 Muslims days earlier in Hebron, was sentenced to 141 years in prison, but the...

<p>Back in 1955, then-rookie reporter David Halberstam was summarily fired by the editor of the West Point Daily Times-Leader in northeast Mississippi for being too journalistically independent.</p> <p>Forty-eight years later Halberstam, with a Pulitzer Prize for reporting in Vietnam and 14 nationally acclaimed best-seller books in his resume, was summoned back to Mississippi.</p>