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...frying pancakes while others skin fresh fish. Cuts of meat hang in front of tailors mending pants and enormous bags of rice prop up the occasional war victim without legs. It was here, in 1969, where my mom was sewing and selling dresses with one of her sisters. Amidst cackling chickens and radio reports about the war, my father stumbled into the market. Ma must have been beautiful to attract his attention. After all, he came looking for a wedding dress for his fiancée back in the States, not to pick up some Vietnamese girlfriend. But he couldn?...
...Before turning in for the night, Blickstead chats with friends. Amidst the flurry of explaining his whirlwind evening from Uno’s to Mather to the hot Asians’ doorstep, Blickstead, ever the Canadian gentleman, notices a quiet pre-frosh who has sort of blended into the background of the room, much as pre-frosh tend...
...Amidst the media firestorm, many students said they felt that grading was harsher last year than in previous years...
...great success in two large late-stage trials. The drug is a so-called "fusion inhibitor," which, when added to a patient's larger drug cocktail, reduces the HIV levels found in the blood. T-20's trial performance was better than what researchers had hoped for. But even amidst this positive development, some AIDS experts expressed concern that the drug might have unknown long-term side effects. (The trials lasted just 24 weeks...
...Lost amidst all the flag-waving and God-avowing furor was the fact that Goodwin may have had a point. "As a matter of common sense, a court should struggle not to reach this result," says Jack Balkin, a professor at Yale Law School. "But the reasoning isn?t crazy. It?s technically correct." Vincent Blasi, a law professor at Columbia University and the University of Virginia, agreed. "If you?re being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious questions, then the Ninth Circuit opinion is quite persuasive," he says. "There is a powerful desire...