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...host, Wilson R.S. Prichard ’03, his newly parched weekends are just the latest in a long list of grievances. Hailing from the crisp, pristine streets of Toronto, Canada, Prichard maintains a strong identity as a stranger in a strange land despite the similarities between his homeland to the north—with its drinking age of 18—and the U.S. “The values are better there,” Prichard snips, “and the quality of life is better. I’m a firm believer that despite...
Owner Kim Muy arrived from Phnom Penh only four years ago. Although she speaks no English, she oversees a coterie of family and friends who cook the recipes imported from her homeland. Soon after joining her five children in America, she was serving authentic home cooking to the Boston-area Khmer community, the second largest in the world outside Cambodia. Concentrated in Lynn, Lowell and Revere, the population numbering between 40,000 and 50,000 is manifested by the Khmer food markets and jewelry shops that line the streets. Kim’s son estimates that the restaurant draws...
...Ming also represents a worrisome future with respect to China. One of the conditions by which the Chinese government granted Yao permission to emigrate to the U.S. was that he return a portion of his income to his homeland (up to 25 percent by some reports) and that he train and play with the Chinese national team every off-season—not just in Olympic years. This type of control by the PRC on Yao is harmful. For one thing, it means he is playing year-round, which will take a toll on his 7’5 frame...
...through it, we instead have Mr. Ridge. The Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge, likewise is a soft-spoken Pennsylvanian trying to be reassuring yet realistic. He has not had an easy time of it. During last month's orange alert, the fatalistic talk about contingency plans and three days' supplies of water hinted at a message no one would tell Americans plainly: we believe a terrible thing is coming, and we will not be able to stop it. Ridge had a basically Rogersian task - getting Americans to accept a terrible eventuality that they could not prevent. So Homeland Security offered...
...Chattanooga, Tenn., where people fret that a nearby nuclear-power plant and the hydroelectric dam in the middle of town are being left vulnerable. "The terrorists are still here," says World War II veteran Thomas Murphy. "I really do worry about our troops' being sent overseas and depleting our homeland security." Or at V.F.W. Post 5255 in Lawrenceville, Ga., where Irvin Dougherty reflects on what it was like to be an infantryman in Vietnam and hopes there is still time for Iraq "to come to its senses...