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Trinh, a San Francisco resident and professor at the University of California at Berkeley, is well-known for experiments with the film medium. Although her topics are not limited to issues of ethnicity, "Surname name Viet, Given Name Nam," she focused on the experience of Vietnamese women both in Vietnam and in America...
...lived through a monsoon in Southeast Asia. Inside the Army-issue tent in a clearing at the jungle's edge, Nash A. Miller, a onetime helicopter door gunner and crew chief, is changing into a dry pair of camouflage fatigues. As his two watchdogs prowl silently, Miller, nicknamed "Nam" (his initials), recounts his tale with a small, innocent smile. It begins at a firebase in the badlands west of Kontum, near the Vietnam-Cambodia border, in the summer...
...people. They come to hear two students translate articles from the latest issue of the magazine; the club president ; chooses the interpreters on the basis of their skills. English major Moon Eun Kyong says the program helps her keep up with the news. Business student Lee Kyong Nam avidly reads business stories to follow worldwide economic trends. International news articles are usually the most familiar and thus the easiest to translate; the more exotically worded art, music and book reviews are the most difficult...
...FMLA includes all the major labor unions, health groups, religious organization, women's groups and education specialists--hundreds of organizations representing a vast cross-section of the country--the opposition to the bill comes from the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). These two special interest groups had Bush's ear on this issue long before FMLA passed the House...
...live comfortably, most Koreans use Japanese aliases and hide their origins. But many are beginning to resent such subterfuges. "We're just like Japanese, so how are we supposed to change?" asks Ha Jung Nam, deputy director of a Korean residents association in Japan. President Roh Tae Woo's scheduled visit to Japan this week ignited simmering anger in Seoul against the treatment of Korean nationals, and he was under pressure to cancel the trip unless the long-standing grievances were resolved...