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Difference is not always a problem. Hung Nguyen was a 16-year-old Vietnamese refugee who spoke no English when he arrived in 1978 with his family in Armidale, a small town in New South Wales. Now his English has only a slight trace of a Vietnamese accent, and he is training to be a surgeon -- one of Australia's first medical specialists of Vietnamese origin -- in Launceston, Tasmania. He has easily moved into the society he has come to call his own. Nguyen's sister married an Australian of Irish descent; one of his friends is a Greek...
...West End. There its exuberance and energy wedded happily with a larger space and wittier, more elaborate settings, a fantasy urban landscape in which skyscrapers look like zoot-suited people. So he decided to brave Broadway, where Five Guys Named Moe boogied in last week. It is a slight, sometimes silly but absolutely joyful experience, larkish and lighthearted and a bit like running around with a lampshade on your head...
...week election campaign, they still found the Labour Party and its leader Neil Kinnock unconvincing. They stuck with the Conservative Party of Prime Minister John Major, giving it a majority of 21 seats in the 651-seat House of Commons. The Conservatives took 41.9% of the popular vote, a slight decrease from the 42.3% they won in 1987, when Margaret Thatcher last led the party to victory. (See related story on page...
...senior British diplomat sniffed, "It was a bit presumptuous of them to demand everything at once." Countered Kohl, who speaks neither English nor French: "Whether one likes to hear it or not, it ((German)) is now the most widely spoken language in the E.C." While that may be a slight exaggeration, what the Germans call their Sprachraum (linguistic space) does include more than 100 million people in Germany and in potential E.C. members Austria and Switzerland, plus millions more in Eastern Europe whose main second language is German...
Junior tutorials are only required for history concentrators planning to write a thesis. But enrollment in sophomore tutorials, which are required for all history concentrators, showed slight gains from last year...