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...around and around in almost a maniacal frenzy. On the other side of the walls, crowds were shouting chants against the U.S., celebrating the imminent victory of the communists. In the distance, our jets were still flying cover, chased by tracer rounds." From the air, "I could see the DAO [defense attache office] headquarters [at Tan Son Nhut] burning in the distance. Yet the city itself had this unearthly calm. It was pitch black. No movement, no light, no sense of what was coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAIGON: THE FINAL 10 DAYS | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...Stephen Dao-Hui Hsu, a current junior fellowstudying theoretical physics, says that, forscientists at least, the program is similar tobeing a post-doctoral student at any other school...

Author: By Gaston DE Los reyes, | Title: Fellows Promote Genius | 3/5/1994 | See Source »

...Dao I Nguyen '94 characterized the jobs as a lot of work for nominal financial compensation, but called them the best summer of your life...

Author: By Luis E. Tollinche, | Title: PBH Offers Summer Job Programs | 3/4/1993 | See Source »

...poured into Shenzhen to buy lottery tickets entitling 500,000 winners to buy 1,000 shares apiece. Would-be investors soon heaved themselves into a riot that brought out cops with tear gas and truncheons. A day later, the government announced that it would double the number of applications. Dao Djonz listings should follow soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Market Crush | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...once again, Nobel touts were caught looking at the wrong continents. Less than an hour before Paz became the winner of the $700,000 prize, rumors were still spreading that the odds-on favorite was Chinese poet Bei Dao. If not he, then possibly Canada's Margaret Atwood, Ireland's Seamus Heaney or the U.S.'s perennial long shot, Joyce Carol Oates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Octavio Paz, LITERATURE: Wide Horizons | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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