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...American officials. "We strongly believe that Freedom House should be accredited," argued James Rubin, spokesman for the U.S.'s U.N. mission. The U.S. will continue the fight to reverse the ruling before the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council, which meets late this month in Geneva to ratify the ngo committee's recommendations. "Freedom House clearly ranks among the most reputable and effective human-rights ngos in the world today," says Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck...
...eight competitors also included Graduate School of Education student Karen Y. Jackson and Lowell House blockmates Marcia M. Turner '97 and Clarissa J. Ngo '97. Turner was the second runner-up in the competition...
Andrina D. Ngo '96, a biology pre-med, says she was discouraged at first by the stigma that pre-meds are work-a-holics who use four-color clicker pens and hang out in Cabot Library...
...Most people are undecided in the beginning because there is a lot of stigma against pre-meds," said Ngo. "I was in [one professor's] office and there was another guy there [and] the professor asked him what [he] is planning...
...Americans were piloting helicopters, fighter bombers and APCs, and serving in that most ambiguous of roles, as military advisors. Beyond hardware, the Kennedy Administration never came to grips with the true politics of the war and of Vietnam; instead, they stood by the hopelessly corrupt and unpopular regime of Ngo Dinh Diem and complained about getting bad press. (Interestingly, the Administration toyed at one point with the idea of getting rid of Diem's vicious and powerful brother, one of the more sordid features of a generally sor-did South Vietnamese government, by sending him off to teach at Harvard...