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Thanks to lots of spadework and liberal payments to sources, Coz's team tracked down the famous pictures of O.J. wearing Bruno Magli shoes, the harrowing diary of Nicole Brown Simpson, and the guy who sold O.J. a knife right before the murder.
A long piece chronicles the harrowing experience of a family who unknowingly adopted a schizophrenic son.
His depiction of harrowing sit-ins "captures the courage and nobility of those small-scale protests that would transform America" (Tamar Jacoby, the Wall Street Journal ). Others say the 783-page book could have stood a heavy edit.
Anyone old enough to remember the imagery of Vietnam would surely have viewed the pictures of Kim at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through Nick Ut's harrowing, Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of children fleeing a napalm attack on a village outside Saigon.
And navigating the rising tide of warm-and-fuzzy holiday programming can be harrowing.