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...Hallicrafters brought news of the decay of the French West African Empire, the enduring South American boundary disputes, and above all, the deepening provincialism of a United States at war in a former French colony it considered wholly Asian. Accidental daybreak listening lured me into programming directed at non-American listeners deeply intrigued by all things American, including the vagaries of American English. For 35 years I listened, lately with a magnificent solid-state receiver I rescued one graduation day from a curbside trash barrel and refitted with a long copper antenna, realizing that my hour-a-day rowboat restoration...
...given to a non-American always a job lost; in fact, sometimes the opposite is true. One of the signatories to the Hyde letter is Zvi Or-Bach, an Israeli engineer who six years ago founded Chip Express, a manufacturer of custom-made microchips that has 64 employees--only 30 are foreign--in Santa Clara, California, and 30 more in Israel. Under the Simpson bill, Or-Bach argues, he would have been unable to hire enough skilled workers to start up his thriving firm. In fact, there would have been no one to dream up the company, since Or-Bach...
...serious here. It is noble of Darren to pick a non-American sports event, it shows his openmindedness towards all sports. But how can a game be honored with such lofty recognition when it is only memorable because of the goal differential tie-breaker system that was in existence? Any casual spectator would probably have not even understood the importance of the second goal...
...mission. He emphasized his plans for Operation Ba Bo, a program of "extermination" of South Vietnamese officials. In this context, Pentagon and congressional experts say, Quang may have engaged in the military briefer's time-honored tendency toward overstatement and, like other North Vietnamese officials, may have included non-American members of various CIA-run commando teams in his accounting of captured "Americans...
...downside of independence is isolation, and it's in this psychological Kalahari that non-American kid movies dare to dwell. Some of 1992's most ; provocative and poignant European films -- Toto le Heros, Olivier Olivier and The Long Day Closes, to be released in the U.S. in May -- are about children whom cruelty or circumstance forces to create a world of their own. Il Ladro di Bambini has this theme. The state has removed two children (Valentina Scalici and Giuseppe Ieracitano) from their mother's care, since for two years she has forced the girl, 11, to be a child...