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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oral history, the telling of tales through the verbatim transcripts of the participants themselves, in many ways seems a natural vehicle for exploring Vietnam. Oral history can provide a confused, halting narrative for a confused, halting war, through the words of the people who had to implement the insanities ordered from afar. The best thing about Everything We Had, one of two, new oral histories of Vietnam (the other is called Nam), is its cadence, the mesmerizing pace of the explanations of those who had to do unreasonable things and then try to survive them. This befuddlement that cost...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Everything We Already Know | 5/8/1981 | See Source »

...Cambridge city schools stand to lose $983,805 in federal aid next year for programs like occupational education, for programs for disadvantaged students and students with special needs, and in funds to help implement desegregation...

Author: By George P. Bayliss, | Title: Reagan Budget Will Cut City Services | 5/5/1981 | See Source »

...tenants, all of whom are members of the Faculty or staff of the University, have sent a letter to President Bok charging that the 22 per cent rent increase Harvard Real Estate plans to implement this year is, not commensurate with salary increases for the University personnel living in the Botanic Gardens complex in the Avon Hill area...

Author: By James A. Star, | Title: Tenants' Association Protests 'Substantial' Increases in Rent | 4/28/1981 | See Source »

...campesinos of the risks and hardships ahead. "Now that power has changed hands, each of you must work not only out of self-interest, but for the common interest. You are not only to serve yourself but also the public." The government, through collective land ownership, was attempting to implement a new social system, "but the only system in which a man can be free," he pointedly reminded them, "is a democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: The Heirs of the Finca Florencia | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...horror of Kazem's persecution at the hands of the Shah's secret police. While Kazem lies prostrate in a dentist chair (a scene itself reminiscent of Marathon Man), the camera focuses on the dentist as he lights a match and uses it to sterilize a dental implement. The camera lingers on the match, and suddenly the memory of Kazem's early encounters with matches makes an ugly intrusion...

Author: By Terrence P. Hanrahan, | Title: The Sword of Oppression | 4/18/1981 | See Source »

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