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...biggest surprise facing Americans who visit Vietnam today may be the fact that people in the North who lost two or three or even seven children in the "American war," as they call it, will greet American tourists as long-lost friends. This gift for forgiveness and pragmatism is all the more impressive, David Lamb suggests in his humane and often moving account, Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns (PublicAffairs; 274 pages), when you recall that 1 in every 10 Vietnamese was wounded or killed in the war against America. If the U.S. had suffered a proportional number of casualties...
...biggest surprise facing Americans who visit Vietnam today may be the fact that people in the North who lost two or three or even seven children in the "American war," as they call it, will greet American tourists as long-lost friends. This gift for forgiveness and pragmatism is all the more impressive, David Lamb suggests in his humane and often moving account, Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns (Public-Affairs; 274 pages), when you recall that 1 in every 10 Vietnamese was wounded or killed in the war against America. If the U.S. had suffered a proportional number of casualties...
...took a chance and extended the olive branch once more to Shelley, apologizing yet again for the unwanted e-mails and inquiring as to whether I could make amends for the repeated inconvenience by taking her out for a drink. Perhaps we were long-lost relatives, I suggested...
...worker also cited the health concerns of long-lost dirty dishes—both for the students whose rooms house the dishes and for the workers who eventually have to clean the dishes...
...odds. He set about tracing a phone number on a fraudulent application for credit that had been made in his name. And he scored, in part by paying $25 to an online data broker--an information mercenary who may not care whether you're trying to track down a long-lost cousin or steal her identity. Johnson went so far as taking the subway to the suspect's address to match his name to an apartment number, noting there were flower boxes in his windows. "I felt like Angela Lansbury," he says...