David Halberstam dies ("the best and the brightest")

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The Yale Book of Quotations has "the best and the brightest" for  Halberstam, 
but I think he was also known for "hearts and minds."
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_http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/arts/24halberstam.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin_
 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/arts/24halberstam.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin) 
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David Halberstam, 73, War Reporter and Author, Is Killed in a Car Crash 
 
 
By _CLYDE HABERMAN_ 
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/nyregion/columns/clydehaberman/?inline=nyt-per) 
Published: April 24, 2007
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David Halberstam, a _Pulitzer Prize_ 
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/pulitzer_prizes/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) 
-winning journalist and tireless author  of books on topics as varied as America’s 
military failings in Vietnam, the  deaths of firefighters at the World Trade 
Center and the high-pressure world of  professional basketball, was killed 
yesterday in a car crash south of San  Francisco. He was 73, and lived in 
Manhattan.
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Mr. Halberstam was a passenger in a car making a turn in Menlo Park, Calif.,  
when it was hit broadside by another car and knocked into a third vehicle, 
said  the San Mateo County coroner. He was pronounced dead at the scene. 
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The man who was driving Mr. Halberstam, a journalism student at the 
_University of California_ 
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_california/index.html?inline=nyt-org)  at Berkeley, was 
injured, as  were the drivers of the other two vehicles. None of those 
injuries were called  serious. 
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Mr. Halberstam was killed doing what he had done his entire adult life:  
reporting. He was on his way to interview Y. A. Tittle, the former _New York 
Giants_ 
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/profootball/nationalfootballleague/newyorkgiants/index.html?inline=nyt-org)  quarterback, for a book about the 
1958  championship game between the Giants and the Baltimore Colts, 
considered by many  to be the greatest football game ever played.



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