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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those odds, you will lose and I will win." The French, convinced of their superiority, ignored his warning and suffered grievously as a result. Senior American officers similarly nurtured the illusion that their sophisticated weapons would inevitably break enemy morale. But, as Ho's brilliant commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap, told me in Hanoi in 1990, his principal concern had been victory. When I asked him how long he would have resisted the U.S. onslaught, he thundered, "Twenty years, maybe 100 years--as long as it took to win, regardless of cost." The human toll was horrendous. An estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ho Chi Minh | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Alexander T. Nguyen '98 disagreed. "Affirmativeaction is a balance between the ideal and thereality," he said. "The ideal is that sex, raceand ethnicity don't matter. The reality is thatthey...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Affirmative Action Day Wins Student Support | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...Nguyen agreed. "Merit means a lot more than GPAand tests--it's also the experience you bring," hesaid...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Affirmative Action Day Wins Student Support | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...Even if groups aren't coming to us we're stilltrying to increase our membership in thosegroups," says Caroline T. Nguyen '00, co-presidentof...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Student Groups Seek Diverse Membership | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...junior biology concentrator at the time of her death, was stabbed 45 times by her roommate, Sinedu Tadesse '96, on the morning of May 28, 1995. After fatally wounding Ho and injuring 26 year-old visitor Thao Nguyen, Tadesse hanged herself in the shower of her Dunster H-21 suite...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Murder-Suicide Victim's Family Files Suit Against College | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

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