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...though, Hanoi?always more dour than gaudy Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in the south?just might be starting to loosen up. "Who cares about the government?" shouts a refrigerator salesman swilling iced gin at the bar and listening to the Filipino country-and-western band. "What matters is what the people like." And the people can't get enough of cowboys. Happy hour at the Seventeen Saloon, from 5 to 8 p.m., is a convivial crush of Vietnamese cutting loose. One tip: if you're planning to pay a visit, make sure to get there early, as the action...
DIED. SPENCER DRYDEN, 66, drummer for the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane during the band's 1960s heyday; of cancer; at his home in Petaluma, Calif. The onetime jazz drummer provided the beat for such hits as White Rabbit and Somebody to Love, but his frequent grumbling and his affair with the group's singer Grace Slick--he regularly threatened to quit the band with Slick in tow--caused tensions, and he left in 1970. He went on to play in other bands, including New Riders of the Purple Sage, before retiring...
...unforgiving fluorescent lights at the campus’s temporarily 24-hour library revealed a band of diehards hunched over their textbooks and laptops. Since Lamont—which sports plushly cushioned chairs and footstools—kicks students out at 12:45 a.m., the crowd was forced to settle for the wooden straight-backed chairs of Cabot...
...Your story on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the oil-for-food scandal [Dec. 13] conceded that neither Annan nor his son has been found guilty of anything improper or illegal. You noted that Annan is defending himself against a "small but determined band of congressional foes" who have launched five separate congressional investigations. But why focus on problems at the U.N. instead of the real scandal of the day: lying by the U.S. President to take us to war? Trey Casimir Lewisburg, Pennsylvania...
...Babalola Toronto Annan Under Fire Your story on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the oil-for-food scandal [Dec. 13] conceded that neither Annan nor his son has been found guilty of anything improper or illegal. You noted that Annan is defending himself against a "small but determined band of congressional foes" who have launched five separate congressional investigations. But why focus on problems at the U.N. instead of the real scandal of the day: Lying by the U.S. President to take us to war? Trey Casimir Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. Annan's problems are not the result...