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LeHuyen T. Pham '92, and Echoing Green grant recipient, says that for most, Harvard students involved in public service are interested not in padding their resumes but in making significant contributions to the lives of their fellow human beings. She says they consider public service to be their lives rather than just a part of them during their undergraduate years...
...just three or four hours that you spend with kids, it's not a separate part of you life, but a way to lead your life," Pham says...
...exhausted Romano, recalls Huyen Pham'92, took an early morning phone call from a young girl in the group. "She called and asked, `Anthony, are we going to see you today?' He said no, he was sick that day." Pham remembers. "She said, `What's wrong?' And he told her, `I don't know, I have to go to a doctor and see what she says...
...think to myself, he doesn't have a doctor who's a woman. So I ask him and he says no, he doesn't." Pham marvels that Romano, amid his troubles, thought to find the little girl a role model. "To think of the impact one conversation could have, [so that] that little girl could think there was this woman who was a doctor...That's incredible...
...picture, and Giap, I decide, is a perfect example. Utterly brainwashed by ambition." TV commentator Bill Moyers, formerly L.B.J.'s press secretary, is still "the sometimes overly pious public defender of liberal virtue." Safer also resents coziness between politics and press, the most blatant example being Vietnamese journalist Pham Xuan An. He worked two jobs: one as a reporter in Saigon for TIME, the other (secretly) as a spy for Hanoi...