Word: chua
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...Sometimes it's like we're walking around in a dream world," Amy Chua says of her first few months here. "And then you wake up and you say, 'I can't believe I'm at one of the greatest colleges in the world...
...Chua and one of her roommates, Susannah Gardiner, wanted to know what it felt like to be obese. So one night at 3 a.m., they stuffed pillows in their clothes and put on their down jackets and went jogging. Now they know what it feels like to be obese. They eat less at the Union these days...
...Chua, like her roommate Susannah, will tell her parents that she loves Harvard, but will keep the details to herself. In fact, she realizes, "I'll have to censor everything, especially stuff about my working habits and my eating habits...
...seems so horrible to middle-class Americans, often becomes for the poor peasant a gateway to a new and better way of life. For some poor migrants, the wartime urban boom has made possible incomes five times those which they had in the countryside. In one Saigon slum, Xom Chua, in early 1965 before the American build-up, the people lived at a depressed level, with 33 per cent of the adult males unemployed. Eighteen months later, as a result of the military escalation, the total population of the slum had increased by 30 per cent, but the unemployment rate...
...clothes, the agents who captured him soon gleaned even more information: Pedro was not only a Communist spy, he had apparently been marked down for liquidation by the Communists themselves for withholding funds. And where had the funds come from? They had been provided by the supposedly anti-Communist Chua Cruz, whose patriotic mien, according to the - government, was only a front for a Communist extortion ring which had blackmailed an estimated 10 million pesos annually from Manila's Chinese...