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...During the proceedings, Le Cong Dinh, a well-known U.S.-educated attorney, admitted that he had joined the banned Democratic Party of Vietnam and had called for multiparty democracy - a crime in Vietnam's single-party state. His other crime, according to the Ho Chi Minh City court, included attending a seminar on non-violent political change. Dinh is perhaps the most high-profile individual to ever be tried as a dissident in Vietnam. The former Fulbright scholar who studied law at Tulane University has represented several human rights activists, but he also successfully represented the state itself...
...terrorism - and it invests time in its characters without ping-ponging between gags. It's still outrageous: the season premiere had Stan take nerdy son Steve to a Vietnam War re-enactment to toughen him up. (Sending up Vietnam-flick clichés, it played "Fortunate Son" over Viet Cong paintball ambushes.) But by focusing on father and son trying to connect, the episode also ended up touching and real...
...count," he said flatly. That's because for decades, the very phrase body count had been deemed poison in the ranks due to its use - and misuse - during the Vietnam War. A generation ago, commanders' careers were made, or hindered, by the number of dead North Vietnamese and Viet Cong chalked up by the forces under their command. The intense focus on only one of what the military calls "measures of effectiveness" distorted the American public's perception of how well the war was going, as enemy body counts towered over those incurred by the U.S. and its South Vietnamese...
...Tran Cong Tien tells it, he was mad as hell and he wasn't going to take it anymore. Pulled over by a Hanoi traffic cop a few weeks ago for driving in the wrong direction down a one-way street, he says he tried to be reasonable. Tien claims the $6 bribe offered was more than fair, but the officer wanted more to ignore the traffic violation. Words between the two escalated. Insults flew. And then Tien snapped. "I grabbed his neck and pushed hard," he says. "I have never dared challenge the police. I'm fed up with...
...Cong ’09, who applied to Ph.D. programs in physics and economics, said that he would need to rely almost entirely on a university for funding. Since he is an international student and therefore does not qualify for most fellowships, Cong said financial aid offerings will be important in his choice of school...