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...advisers. As usual, we were moving in single file, which meant that the V.C. could halt the entire column by picking off the first man. I had urged Hieu to break the battalion into three or four parallel columns, but the forest was so dense and the passes so narrow in places that Hieu let this bit of American wisdom go politely unheeded...
...just arrived at the bottom of a narrow creek bed when I heard several sharp cracks. Incoming fire, the first I had ever experienced, rifles and submachine guns, I guessed. I heard a scream up ahead. The men began shouting and running around in utter confusion. I repressed my own terror and started to make my way forward to find out what had happened. When I got to the head of the column, I saw a knot of Vietnamese huddled around a groaning soldier, a medic kneeling at his side. An ARVN noncom gestured toward the creek. Another small figure...
...field already occupied by such established conservative journals as the National Review and the American Spectator, is there room for one more? Livelier than the Review, less bratty than the Spectator, the Standard is modeled most obviously on the New Republic, but with a more narrow focus on politics. And a more consistent tilt to the right, though with a few surprises. Among several admiring pieces about Newt Gingrich is one by Charles Krauthammer that spurns the House Speaker's chipper vision of a techno-Utopia. Technology makes many problems worse, Krauthammer warns, leaving politics to clean up the mess...
...purely analytical scope of science may be too narrow to satisfactorily explain consciousness; for that, philosophy may have to play a role. STEVEN A. BROWN Washington, New Jersey Via E-mail...
...Area shows that commonplace life has improved dramatically for them since the advent of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Several years ago, for example, Breslin stopped at a drugstore near her home in Berkeley. The tight turnstiles at the entrance made access difficult, the checkout aisles were too narrow for her wheelchair, and Breslin had to wheel backward against the flow of other shoppers after she paid her bill. On a recent visit, she found that the store, now run by a different retailer, was much easier to deal with. There were no turnstiles to negotiate, and a wide checkout...