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...Daewoo. "People used to say the south was the best place to do business," says Nguyen Anh Tuan, deputy director of Vietnam's Foreign Investment Agency. "But now, that point of view is no longer correct." Tuan may be biased-his office is in Hanoi-but even Luong Van Ly, deputy director of Ho Chi Minh City's planning and investment department, is forced to grudgingly admit: "Hanoi is catching up very quickly...
Some people who have worked with Jones, 59, call him prickly. A few leave off the ly. In an interview, he doesn't grade questions on the curve. Is Three Burials his homage to the Texas landscape? "Homage is not the kind of language that would often be heard in those parts." What about the film's political meaning? "To explain what it means is self-defeating. I could have written a political essay. I made a movie...
...poem was called "Ode to Grapefruit." It no longer exists, even in my memory. But I do remember that the last line was written in the cadence of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "and-my-bel-ly-full-of-grape-fruit." I don't know whether Professor Crouch did it as a trick, but he got me to talk. He had a conviction that if you like words, you should be able to say them out loud. Reading my poems out loud helped me to speak and to deal with my stutter...
...enclave). From early morning, they gather to read the papers and suck down potent glasses of ca phe sua da - espresso served over ice and sweetened with condensed milk - while listening to music coming out of antiquated speakers (it might be by the Ronettes, the Rolling Stones or Khan Ly, Vietnam's most celebrated diva and a Café Tung regular in the 1960s). "I'm keeping it this way because it has worked for nearly 50 years," says proprietor Tung Dinh Tran, who opened the café in 1959 but has now handed over the management...
...enclave). From early morning, they gather to read the papers and suck down potent glasses of ca phe sua da-espresso served over ice and sweetened with condensed milk-while listening to music coming out of antiquated speakers (it might be by the Ronettes, the Rolling Stones or Khan Ly, Vietnam's most celebrated diva and a Café Tung regular in the 1960s). "I'm keeping it this way because it has worked for nearly 50 years," says proprietor Tung Dinh Tran, who opened the café in 1959 but has now handed over the running...