Word: dinh
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...briefly held three of them hostage, forcing one to disrobe. Last year, farmers in Hung Yen province battled authorities trying to seize their land and resell it to developers. "Men, women and children fought back with their bare hands, with mud, with anything they could grab," said Nguyen Dinh Liem, who was working in his rice paddy when police arrived. "I had never seen that kind of thing before." (See pictures of the Vietnam-China border...
...Still, some Vietnamese artists manage to exhibit thought-provoking works. Born in remote mountains that are home to disenfranchised ethnic minorities, Dinh Thi Tham Poong tweaks traditional folk art with contemporary touches. Her canvases capture the tensions between the natural world and the onslaught of Vietnam's economic reforms - all without appearing overtly political. The country's censors likely have a hard time understanding that Poong's whimsical figures scattered across traditional handmade paper could possibly be making a social statement. But it is only in such narrow margins that Vietnam's artists can safely operate...
What events in your life made allowed you who you are today? -Dinh Phan, Silver Spring, Md. The Marine Corps. It instilled a great sense of discipline that I can call on when I need to. Growing up without a father also had a big effect and being the youngest in the family. I think every situation you find yourself in-the traffic you go through, the lines you wait in, even mundane things have an effect drop by drop...
...think your husband's sacrifice was worth it? -Dinh Quynh Anh, VIETNAMI don't think you can talk in terms of "worth it." His will and his choice was to become a journalist and a writer. And I think every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful...
...still has G.O.P. backers. Viet Dinh, former assistant AG to John Ashcroft and an author of the Patriot Act, has been his best friend since they had a nightlong argument freshman year at Harvard about what the framers of the Constitution thought of men's souls. Dinh toes the G.O.P. line on the probe but believes "Preet can be trusted to follow the facts and take appropriate actions." Gonzales testifies April...