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...Translated by Andrew X. Pham and annotated by Tram's younger sister, Dang Kim Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace offers a rare combination of lyricism, grit, passion and humanity. "What am I?" Tram asks at one point. "I am a girl with a heart brimming with emotions, yet with a mind that never falters before a complex and dangerous situation." She might have been speaking for a generation of idealistic young Vietnamese who never returned from the battlefields...
...whites is a mark of racial solidarity rather than a prejudice to be minimized and eventually abandoned. So I'm doing what I do because I was poor once myself, and I know how the soul of many can be impoverished by being poor. Personal approval is only a rare bit of icing on the cake. Most likely, Steele has a few masks of his own that become apparent only by reading between the lines of his article. Frank Kizer, Bartlett, Tenn...
...price when demand is high. Elephant owner Iqbal, who supplies horses to Sohan Lal and Sons, argues that well-paid owners treat their animals better, and animal rights NGO Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals confirms that complaints of ill-treatment of horses and elephants have become very rare. But it's not just simple economics, says Ashok Kumar of Harjai's, "We're dream merchants, and no price is too high for a dream...
...Holy Cross faced the University of Vermont in the Crusader’s season opener at home, falling 54-44.In the Crimson’s last time out at home, co-captain Linsday Hallion shined, grabbing 14 points in the second stanza and leading her team to a rare victory against cross-town rivals, Boston University for the first time in three years.Holy Cross will travel to Cambridge after a two week break in play. In their last showing, the Crusaders fell to Boston College, 77-58. The Eagles have topped Holy Cross in the teams’ last 10 straight...
French officials and the country's top defense executives vowed at a press conference on Thursday to boost the country's arms exports, by fast-tracking deals and aggressively seeking new business. Rare, considering the usually secretive nexus of government defense bureaucrats and the arms industry, French defense minister Hervé Morin met reporters for an hour, surrounded by top officials from Dassault Aviation and Thales, two of France's biggest defense companies, and told them that it was "a priority to revive our arms exports...