Word: hue
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...entry for the Viet Nam memorial is a loser. The proposed monument may satisfy the needs of the Washington Mall but it fails to impart what the war meant to those who fought it. In 1968 newsmagazines printed a photo of a U.S. army tank carrying soldiers wounded in Hue during the Tet offensive. That picture says more about the pain and sacrifice Americans suffered than the proposed "hole in the ground...
...rant. Op-Ed pages give others a voice. Papers that don't want to make waves rent their opinions from elsewhere and are careful to choose columnists across a spectrum of views. Even highly opinionated columnists are diminished in impact when they become simply another carefully chosen hue on a color wheel of opinion. Editorials, particularly on chain-owned newspapers, are apt to be blandly in favor of worthy causes and prudently evasive on issues that rile and divide the city...
King Juan Carlos of Spain, still steamed that the royal couple were departing on their honeymoon cruise from the contested Rock of Gibraltar, stayed away as announced, but send a gift. The Rev. Ian Paisley, an Orangeman of the deepest hue, was dismayed that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume, had been asked to say a prayer during the ceremony, and made his displeasure known in a rhetorical thunderbolt: "May God bless the Prince and his bride-to-be, but may God deliver the House of Windsor from the conspiracy of Rome to subvert the Protestant monarchy...
...back to life: he has been silenced forever. Will Bill Carter and Hgo Vinh Long join me in deploring and mourning his death? Will they also express concern at the possibility that all those who are still in reeducation camps may face the same grim fate as my father? Hue Tam Ho Tal Assistant Professor in Sino-Vietnamese History
While it is probably only to be expected that in most newspapers a lamentably high percentage of quotations are in fact misquoted. I should have thought that Prof. Hue-Tam Ho Tai, a participant in the April 23 panel and a member of the Harvard faculty (asst. professor of Sino-Vietnamese History) would not have repeated, in her letter published together with that of Dr. Womack on April 30, an April 24 misquotation from the Crimson. Dr. Long never expressed the opinion that the "reeducation camps" in Vietnam are "necessary," as can be attested by a complete recording...