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Caroline T. Nguyen '00, the co-president of the Asian American Association (AAA), led the protest against the policy, which UAC leaders said was based on space considerations in Eliot Dining Hall, where the fair is being held...
...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...
...youngest of three children, Ho was born Nguyen Sinh Cung in 1890 in a village in central Vietnam. The area was indirectly ruled by the French through a puppet emperor. Its impoverished peasants, traditional dissidents, opposed France's presence; and Ho's father, a functionary at the imperial court, manifested his sympathy for them by quitting his position and becoming an itinerant teacher. Inheriting his father's rebellious bent, Ho participated in a series of tax revolts, acquiring a reputation as a troublemaker. But he was familiar with the lofty French principles of liberte, egalite, fraternite and yearned...
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...
...Nguyen agreed. "Merit means a lot more than GPAand tests--it's also the experience you bring," hesaid...