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...print run greater than 5,000. Tram herself became a national hero, with hundreds of people visiting her grave site and a hospital named after her. For the younger generation of Vietnamese (nearly 60% of the population was born after the war's end in 1975), Tram's ardent accounts of bloody conflict offer a vivid connection to a time their parents find difficult to speak about. Now translated into English as Last Night I Dreamed of Peace, the diaries provide international readers with a Vietnamese perspective of the "American War," as it was known to Tram and her compatriots...
...reflects new currents in evangelical thought. Younger Evangelicals oppose abortion even more than their elders do, but they are also more likely to believe that the protection of the environment and the alleviation of poverty are moral concerns that demand a political response. While Huckabee is the most ardent social conservative of the top Republican candidates, he is also the one who takes the economic anxieties of the lower middle class most seriously. When the Republicans met in Dearborn, Mich., to debate the economy, most of the candidates maintained that times were good and that people who thought otherwise just...
Hope, Ark., a town of just over 10,000 people, is known for its prize-winning watermelon. This town near the Louisiana and Texas borders is also known to ardent political junkies as the birthplace of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee also hails from Hope, and the similarities don’t end there. Both men were governor of Arkansas for more than 10 years, and Huckabee, as Clinton did during his first presidential bid, has seemed to make a last-minute surge during the primary season. Both men even play...
Today, reminiscence of the 1960s conjures images of a more ardent and idealistic era, during which students set down their pens and took up arms against the Vietnam War, the draft that accompanied it, and a host of other injustices. All of this simmering outrage boiled over at Harvard in 1969, when undergraduates seized University Hall in protest of the College’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program. For some, accompanying nostalgia for that era is a tangible disappointment in today’s students who, it may seem, have no interest in enduring truncheons...
...most students seem interested in occupying these days is the Queen’s Head. But there’s at least one undergrad who is deeply and sincerely engaged. Yes, Bennett C. Braddock III ’08 is a political junkie. He’s also an ardent support of First Amendment rights, especially when free speech involves shouting “You’re really hot!” in a crowded bar. You can imagine my surprise when I ran into Braddock at a recent Hillary Clinton rally, just across the state line...