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...paper's bureau there, becoming the only American newspaperman to be based in Vietnam at war and at peace. The opposite of a jaded war correspondent, Lamb captures the country he came to love mostly through its people: an eager young waiter who is making his way through Jane Austen (in English); a handicapped veteran who confesses to no anger except with himself; a young Vietnamese-Australian lawyer who works tirelessly to help resettle boat people; and 11 returning G.I.s who swap sneakers and old pictures with the men they once fought against...
...wouldn't want a high-profile Washington job that has a five-year term, pays $150,000 and puts 48,506 employees and a Gulfstream IV jet at your disposal? Lots of people, apparently. Federal Aviation Administrator Jane Garvey is leaving in eight weeks, and there are no viable applicants lined up to replace her. Time is short: vetting a candidate can take months, and then the nominee must be approved by the Senate, which will recess on Aug. 2. The Bush Administration is so desperate, it even asked Garvey, a Democrat, to stay. But she has had enough. Garvey...
After their only son—who never attended Harvard—died at 15 of typhoid fever, former California Gov. Stanford famously remarked one morning to his wife, Jane: “The children of California shall be our children...
...innocuous, undemanding games of badminton or kickball. My parents pushed us to read and calculate, not to throw and run. My older brother erected a basketball hoop in our driveway that went unused after a year of initial excitement, and my brilliant, studious sister preferred the newspaper or a Jane Austen novel to a game of basketball or tennis. Both siblings ultimately turned out swell—I, in fact, became the black sheep of the family after they both graduated from med school. But while academics were our “thing,” sports were clearly...
...team’s banquet in April, junior Christin McConnell received the Spirit Award, sophomore Renee Paradise picked up the John Walker Award honoring the team’s outstanding diver, senior Lauren Fabian earned the Nancy Sato Award for commitment to the team and Lee and junior Jane Humphries grabbed the Coach’s Awards. The banquet gave the seniors a final chance to celebrate the outstanding conclusion to their careers...