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Like echoes that will not be quieted, scenes from a war that ended nearly 30 years ago are now being replayed at the airport in Raleigh, North Carolina. Clutching white plastic bags of travel documents, bleary-eyed Montagnard refugees from the Central Highlands of Vietnam stream down the arrival-lounge escalator to be met by white-haired American ladies wearing housedresses and blowsy men waving American flags. Joyful members of North Carolina's 3,000-strong Montagnard community are on hand, as are relief workers from Lutheran Family Services who bustle about, counting heads and arranging transportation that will ferry...
...Glen Envil, a 34-year-old Montagnard who landed last week in Raleigh with her husband and three children, says she was forced to flee Vietnam because "life was just getting worse and worse." Farmland that had been passed down through generations of her family was seized by the government. Vietnamese migrants, now the majority in the highlands, pocketed the profits from coffee and rice crops that rightfully belonged to her family. "Our children go hungry sometimes," she says. "Without land how can we get money? How can we get medical care?" In the end, Envil and her family grew...
...Wilkins was fired from his job as supervisor at the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer newspaper for daring to “come out” as a former homosexual. Lesbian Jackie Goldberg of the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution condemning an ex-gay conference held in that city as “perpetuating fear and intolerance...
...melancholic limbo: The adult Chas (Ben Stiller) is still reeling from the death of his wife, and paranoidly dresses himself and his two sons in nothing but red jumpsuits so that they are always prepared for an emergency. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) is unhappily married to the neurologist Raleigh St. Clair (Bill Murray), who spends most of his time experimenting on Dudley, a boy who could pass as Rushmore’s Max Fischer’s mentally ill cousin. Richie (Luke Wilson), having suffered a mental breakdown on the courts, is now sailing the world in a boat while secretly...
...adult versions of the Tenenbaum children, Stiller, Paltrow and Wilson do fine jobs with their roles. Murray, so dryly funny in Rushmore, is given surprisingly little to do as Margot’s husband Raleigh St. Clair...