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...that runs along Truc Bach Lake and disgorged a small group of Americans. Leading the pack was a tour guide with a head of white hair, a stiff gait and enormous Ray-Ban sunglasses. "Here it is, ladies and gentlemen!" John McCain announced as he paced over to the modest concrete monument that commemorates the day in October 1967 when a Vietnamese missile shot down his plane and he was pulled from the lake by an irate mob. And unless you spent the entire primary season on the phone trying to match wits with Regis, you know McCain endured...
...Miriam doesn't know, but readers do, since Brown's narrative moves back and forth between the minds of mother and daughter. And it turns out that Veronica Reece, or Ronnee, as she prefers to be called, has accepted, over her militant father's objections, a modest scholarship to Stanford University. He derides the offer as a "Pity the Poor Nigger Scholarship" and tells Ronnee, "You're there, darlin', so their brochures will look good." Since he on principle won't help defray her college expenses, Ronnee wonders if this rich white mother in Texas she's heard about might...
...Stables will ship two runners to Louisville--50-1 sleepers China Visit and Curule. Nobody knows much about the pair, except that both have won big-money races at hometown Nad al-Sheba racetrack. Godolphin's horses arrived late and only came out of quarantine on Tuesday, then had modest workouts at Churchill. Most handicappers have dismissed the mysterious men from the East, but China Visit's eye-catching win in the March 25 UAE Derby (where he returned $38 for a $2 ticket) has longshot-happy railbirds thinking of a triple-digit payout...
...Omar Amaya, 22, a house painter in Vail, the tougher law enforcement is a modest price to pay for living where he can make $104 a day, compared to $5 a day back in Mexico. He paid a $700 fine after he ignored an earlier warrant and was picked up again for driving without a license or insurance. "Back home," he says, "I would have settled with the police on the street for $10." Says Heredia, a onetime Aspen dishwasher who now works as a court interpreter: "It's a shock to come from the worst poverty into the richest...
...researching and writing his third novel, The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje was pretty much free of all expectations for the book except his own. Born in 1943 in Ceylon (which changed its name to Sri Lanka in 1972) and a longtime Canadian resident and citizen, Ondaatje enjoyed a modest following as a poet, filmmaker and educator. But when his novel appeared in 1992, all that comfortable obscurity came to an abrupt halt. The English Patient went on to win Britain's prestigious and commercially influential Booker Prize and was then turned into a 1996 Academy Award-winning film...