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...swimmer, water polo player, and academic decathlon competitor in high school, Tran also spent much of his time volunteering, and he wishes to focus on community service while in college, while also engaging with the Vietnamese roots from which he is so little removed...
...ancient Buddhist kingdoms, you may well be on the phone to your travel agent. All of this is testimony to the skill of authors Bijan Omrani and Matthew Leeming. The book offers a balance of practical advice, intriguing cultural observations and literary excerpts (quoting everyone from Marco Polo to Bruce Chatwin), and showcases the authors' encyclopedic knowledge without ever becoming stuffy. The only dissonant note relates to security issues. Large parts of southern Afghanistan are still too dangerous for foreigners, where fighting continues between U.S. forces and remnants of the Taliban, and bomb attacks have taken place in Kabul...
Yours is the finest report on events in China since Marco Polo's. Jàn Gadzo Chisholm, Minn...
...promoting China's capitalist transition, serving as chairman of the Asia Society and chairman of the U.S.-China Business Council, and creating and chairing the International Business Leaders' Advisory Council in Shanghai. The Chinese remain so enamored of Greenberg that this year they honored him with their prestigious Marco Polo Prize for promoting Sino-American relations. "Hank Greenberg is perhaps the best known and most admired American businessman at both top government and top business levels in [India and China]," says Peter G. Peterson, who was an economic adviser to Richard Nixon and has known Greenberg for years...
...three years, I had wanted to be a part of a state title celebration, and now I was about to be standing on that grass, as close as I would ever get. But when I reached the gate, I was stopped by a tournament official in a white polo...