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MICROSOFT CHAIRMAN BILL GATES hates it. So does Intel president Andy Grove and virtually every other chief executive in Silicon Valley. In Washington the representatives of America's vaunted high-tech industries hate it too. Phyllis Eisen, senior policy director of the 14,000-member National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), one of the country's most powerful business lobbies, decries it as "insane...
...Hughes brothers are up to more serious business. Menace II Society had a kinetic kick, but it was also heinous in its uninflected take on teen brutality. Dead Presidents, which spans the Vietnam decade and hip-hops from the Bronx to 'Nam and back again, is expansive rather than explosive. Two friends (Larenz Tate and Chris Tucker) have troubles with deranged soldiers, possessive women, killer pimps and a society that won't give them a break...
...Sung Han Nam...
...South Vietnamese soldiers who had fled had abandoned their uniforms. Everywhere you looked on the road, they had left all their military clothing and supplies: canteens, caps, coats, pants, boots, belts--they must have ended up fleeing in their shorts!" Some, in fact, had done exactly that. Nam Pham, venturing into the streets of Saigon on April 29 before shoving aboard a barge at the river docks, noticed among the crowds a number of young men clad in nothing but boxer shorts...
That push proceeded swiftly and smoothly. On some days, reports spoke hopefully of a near cessation of fighting. In fact, that was an ominous sign: it meant that the NVA was methodically encircling Saigon without encountering much resistance. There was enough fighting, however, to impress Nam Pham, then a college freshman. Every night during that last week of April, he would climb to the roof of his family's house in a Saigon suburb and watch the flashes of bombs and gunfire coming ever closer. Says Pham: "It gave me kind of a weird feeling, watching something you love...