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...children. By 1974, Xuong's concerns about the war's course had grown. He had never thought the United States would leave without at least ensuring a viable South Vietnam. And like many in the large ethnic Chinese community in Saigon?which would provide the majority of the boat people fleeing to the U.S. after the war ended?he dreaded the idea of a Communist regime ever coming to power. "We had never thought about leaving," he says. But when the North rolled into Saigon, and the Americans beat a retreat, that changed...
...event with a published capacity of 375, there has to have been a miscalculation somewhere. This was the first harbor cruise event ever held by the UC. Though the annual Moonlight Cruise for seniors nearly always sells out, the prospect of spending three hours on a Havana-themed boat with a cash bar on an (uncontrollably) rainy Friday night held decidedly less allure. It was so hard for this event to go right, and so easy for it to go wrong...
They saw it, they heard Harvard coxswain Kit Randolph urging the boat forward, and they may have even felt it—but their recognition of the Crimson’s move did nothing to stop...
...media are far more challenging than yesterday's. The Sopranos' interlaced plots make Hill Street Blues look like a Barney video. Nemo tracks many more characters and story lines than did Bambi. And supposedly mindless shows like The Apprentice are graduate seminars compared with '70s trash like The Love Boat, requiring us to parse webs of relationships, motives and strategies. In today's media, says Johnson, "even the crap has improved...
Both Navy varsity boats entered the weekend with the justified swagger of a No. 1 ranked crew fresh off a solid trouncing of Georgetown—the only boat to have defeated Harvard’s first varsity all season long. The Navy first varsity had not lost a spring race since 2003, and the 2004 Midshipmen rowed to an open-water victory at the national championships. Navy had won the previous three Haines Cups over the Crimson. Only one Harvard boat got the best of the Midshipmen in a dual race during that three-year stretch...