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Both McCain and Kerry served in Vietnam, but took different paths during and after the war. McCain enlisted to go to Vietnam, and spent five years in a prisoner of war (POW) camp after his plane was shot down over North Vietnam. Kerry served two tours in Vietnam for the U.S. Navy, receiving a Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for his service. But after the war, he spoke out actively against the direction of U.S. policy in the war, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala and Imtiyaz H. Delawala, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: McCain, Kerry Lauded for Vietnam Service | 9/11/2001 | See Source »

...what it is." Because of the genre cross-pollination, the show has fewer of those spine-tingling moments when the audience sings along as one, though when those moments do come--as in OutKast's B.O.B. (Bombs over Baghdad), which had everyone chanting along gospel-style, "Pow-er, music, electric revival"--they tend to mean a little more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music For The Masses | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...Hayakawa's renown declined in the early '20s, and Hollywood ignored the Japanese for two decades. The war brought them back, more virulent than ever. The ad line for the 1943 film China read: "Alan Ladd and twenty girls - trapped by the rapacious Japs!" In the POW drama The Purple Heart, American airmen are tortured and executed for not ratting their pals. War movies reveled in a grim picture of the superhuman, subhuman foe - propaganda at its most lurid. As Bruce Jackson, who had been a World War II marine, wrote ironically in 1995: "Japs, as we learned from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geishas & Godzillas | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...frosh were welcomed by protesters outside of Mass. Hall and a Native American pow-wow in front of the Science Center this weekend as they got an official taste of life at Harvard...

Author: By Hannah E. Kenser, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Greets Class of 2005 | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...frosh were welcomed by protesters outside of Mass. Hall and a Native American pow-wow in front of the Science Center this weekend as they got an official taste of life at Harvard...

Author: By Hannah E. Kenser, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Greets Class of 2005 | 4/22/2001 | See Source »

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