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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...royally wrathful. He marched off, but the ensuing peace was short-lived. He had apparently called a pow-wow with Jon, another UMass student who needed Bob’s support in the following day’s MACR election. Jon quickly found his way over to where Sean and I were standing and talking and proceeded to lecture Sean—with nary a smile or laugh—about “stealing Bob’s woman.” Huh? As far as I could tell, my blatantly insulting Bob all night?...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Body Politics | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...memory recedes at generational warp speed. Those who remember, remember. But a senior in college now was born three or four years after Saigon fell and changed its name to Ho Chi Minh City. I see the black POW-MIA flag still flying (though frayed) above a post office or police barracks in Massachusetts. No one raised an outcry of political correctness when John McCain referred some weeks ago to his North Vietnamese jailers as "gooks" - the feeling being, I guess, that his years at the Hanoi Hilton earned him a pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remember Tet? Watching Your Life Become History | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...held incommunicado for 12 days. Later his wife learned he had been in a prison where the Russians claim to "filter" terrorists from civilians--using torture, according to human-rights groups. On Feb. 3 the Russians suddenly made a deal with the Chechens to swap Babitsky for two Russian POWs. The outrage was immediate. "What kind of state arrests a journalist and then uses him in a POW swap?" asks Radio Liberty's Moscow editor, Mikhail Sokolov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chechen Scene: In Harm's Way | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

Manchurian. In the 1962 John Frankenheimer film The Manchurian Candidate, a former POW war hero is brainwashed and becomes an assassin in a Communist plot to take over the presidency. John McCain is known in certain circles as "The Manchurian Candidate...

Author: By Noelle Eckley, | Title: Campaign 2000, A to Z | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

McCain, who was a POW in the Vietnam War, also looks to benefit from the large poplulation of veterans in South Carolina, where over 400,000 call the state home...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Candidates Shift Focus To South Carolina, Rest of Nation | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

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