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...even to those determined not to get involved, the reach of the war was inescapable. Xuong Lu did not escape the war's reach. His skill as a machinist meant that the South Vietnamese army asked him to go to combat zones to help repair critical equipment. He would be away sometimes for a month or more at a time, and occasionally witnessed heavy fighting. When her husband was away, Nu sold cigarettes on the streets of Saigon to support their two children. By 1974, Xuong's concerns about the war's course had grown. He had never thought...
He’s got more than skill on the erg, according to Schroeder and Downing...
...wood during the FM interview, Stanul did show off his (literally) chiseled body. After removing two carrots from his pocket (“I try to eat healthy,” he says), Stanul proceeded to chisel the hair off part of his forearm. Now that’s skill...
Following his speech, Heyward told The Crimson that the most valuable skill he learned at Harvard was writing. Good writing is invaluable to critical thinking and “making thoughts coherent,” he said...
...week. Predictably, hilarity ensues. Although it may deliver the expected characters and even sometimes predictable punch-lines, “Mr. Plumb” is refreshingly and unexpectedly irreverent and compassionate in its treatment of the plot, a tribute to the writers’ and actors skill. Perhaps the script’s sensitive zaniness is best exemplified with Maggie’s follow-up to one touching line about her relationship with her late husband (“With his arms around me, I would not get cold. And with his arms around me, I would not get old?...