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Horst Faas, a prizewinning combat photographer with The Associated Press for nearly a half-century, died on Thursday. He was 79.

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The celebrated Associated Press combat photographer Horst Faas, known for his decade of work during the Vietnam War, dies at 79.

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The CIA director revealed only a few details about the 21-year-old woman, a secretary among spies. In the agency’s annual memorial service for employees killed on the job, then-director Leon Panetta announced that a new name had been inscribed with calligraphy inside the CIA’s Book of Honor : Barbara Annette Robbins, who had volunteered to go to Saigon during the Vietnam War and died in a 1965 car bombing at the U.S. Embassy. Read full article > >

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Barbara Robbins: A slain CIA secretary’s life and death

TUCSON — Richard Carmona, the Democratic candidate for senator from Arizona, had a rough childhood in New York City. His Puerto Rican parents had drug and alcohol problems, and he was homeless for a time. He dropped out of high school and went to Vietnam, where he won two Purple Hearts and two Bronze Stars. Read full article > >

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Richard Carmona, former Bush surgeon general, best hope of turning Arizona blue, Democrats say

We’ve seen these images before. Photographs of victors posing with the corpses of their enemies. Photographs of the vanquished subjected to posthumous humiliation. We’ve seen these images before. From Iraq and Afghanistan. From Bosnia and Berlin. Rwanda and Darfur. Okinawa and Vietnam. Read full article > >

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Essay: We’ve seen photos before like ones of U.S. soldiers with Afghan corpses

A telltale sign that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara no longer believed in the Vietnam War came not from anything he said publicly, but how he said it. Harold Brown, who served under McNamara at the Pentagon as director of defense research and engineering and later as secretary of the Air Force, came to recognize the mannerisms McNamara would display when voicing public support for policies with which he privately disagreed. Read full article > >

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Defense book takes a deeper look at Robert McNamara

In this week’s episode of “ Mad Men ,” no woman was safe. Certainly not those nurses who were so brutally murdered in Chicago by the very real Richard Speck . Not Joan, whose husband Greg finally came home long enough to announce that he was being redeployed to Vietnam and lie about the circumstances that prompted it. Not Megan, who, unbeknownst to her, is being cheated on in her husband’s weird, murderous fever dreams about Shelly Johnson from “Twin Peaks.” Not Sally Draper, who, as a young girl forced to eat tuna sandwiches in their entirety and curb her TV viewing habits (“I’m on vacation ”), is clearly the true victim here. Not even Cinder-friggin’-rella, who, based on the Michael Ginsberg version of her story, is a hobbling, helpless female stalked by a shadowy foot fetishist named Prince Charming. Which sounds kind of like the plot of “ Fifty Shades of Grey .” Read full article > >

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‘Mad Men’: A salute to this week’s five heroines

SECOND-GUESSING the design of the nation’s memorials is as American as the iconic figures they honor. When the Lincoln Memorial was being planned, no less an authority than Frank Lloyd Wright called it the “most ridiculous, most asinine miscarriages of building material that ever happened.” Critics of the Jefferson Memorial wondered why this father of democracy was housed in a Roman temple. So controversial was Maya Lin’s spare homage to those who died in Vietnam that the highest-ranking member of the executive branch to show up for its dedication was the deputy interior secretary. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Ike’s memorial

Some analogies are perhaps best avoided. Take, for example, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper ’s appearance last week before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D- Mich.) told Clapper he was “concerned by recent news reports that the latest National Intelligence Estimate, or NIE, reflects a difference of views between the intelligence community and our military commanders over the security situation in Afghanistan.” Read full article > >

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Another Vietnam? Maybe a bad analogy.

In 1968 I began my life in diplomacy as an aide to Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance, who were heading peace talks with the North Vietnamese in Paris. Thirty-four years later, I ended that career as the George W. Bush administration’s first special envoy to Afghanistan, appointed weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Like Richard Holbrooke , my contemporary on the Paris delegation and my eventual successor as envoy to Afghanistan, I have been struck by parallels between the two wars and the two peace processes, the first of which ultimately ended in failure and the second of which is only now taking shape, the fruit of much effort by Holbrooke and his successor, Ambassador Marc Grossman . Read full article > >

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Negotiating peace in Afghanistan without repeating Vietnam

Vietnamese man Nguyen Duy Hai is in a stable condition after a 12-hour operation to remove a huge 90kg tumour.

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Vietnam man’s huge tumour removed

Vietnamese man Nguyen Duy Hai is in a stable condition after a 12-hour operation to remove a huge 90kg tumour.

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Vietnam man’s huge tumour removed

The American war in Iraq is over. The last U.S. soldier will be home by Christmas, and for the first time in a decade, no American service member is preparing for deployment in Mesopotamia. As America leaves the Iraq war, what has the war left America? There are the images. Where Vietnam gave us the Huey helicopter landing among rotor-washed palms, Iraq’s icon is the Humvee rumbling through a dun-colored landscape of desert. The arc of the American experience in Iraq can be told through the collage from hope to barbarity, from swaggering invasion to quiet departure. Read full article > >

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Arc of Iraq war told in images

It’s not easy to program Veterans Day to wide approval. Some TV viewers want the manly Military Channel specials about strategy and warfare. Some want pure history and grainy footage. Some want yellow ribbons and emotions. Some can wade into the moral vagaries or go deep into the trauma of postwar mental illness and injury. Some just can’t go there at all. Read full article > >

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War, up close and personal: ‘Vietnam in HD’ and ‘Where Soldiers Come From’