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...they were assigned to protect or slaughter. Says an Army interpreter: "I think blacks got along better with the Vietnamese people, because they knew the hardships the Vietnamese went through. The majority of the people who came over there looked down on the Vietnamese. They considered them ragged, poor, stupid. They just didn't respect them. I could understand poverty...
...only athletes and coaches who are tired of such pointless fakery. "To ignore reality is stupid, and that's what we're doing," says Robert Helmick, a Des Moines lawyer who is a vice president of the U.S.O.C. Helmick also points out, however, that the Olympic definition of amateurism has been broadened enormously over the past 20 years. Broadened indeed; it is as if the definition of a milk cow had expanded to include gray skin, huge floppy ears and a trunk. Since 1980, subsidies and stipends paid out by the U.S.O.C. have doubled, to an impressive figure...
...State Department, such defiant gestures indicate a change of degree, not of direction, in Honduran policies toward the U.S. But the country's newfound assertiveness also suggests that its sense of pride may have been wounded. "Honduras has always been the stupid child of the region, and what has happened with the U.S. shows it even more," complains Gilberto Goldstein, president of the Honduran Sugar Producers Association. That feeling was exacerbated when Secretary of State George Shultz paid a surprise visit to Nicaraguan leaders in Managua two months ago. It seemed to many Hondurans that Washington might be angling...
...realize that thieves often get caught and that horses sired by champion studs don't always win races. But what Paulie has, that only his cousin seems to appreciate, is charm Robert's performance as Paulie is the highlight of the movie, he shows how a rather stupid person can also be imaginative and very funny. He preserveres through all his troubles because he doesn't know any other way of living. Rourke's Charlie sticks by Paulie because of a tribal instinct in which the strong stay by the weak. Strong and weak are often reversed in their relationship...
...across. Usually it isn't a big deal but like anything else it leads to bad habits and the problems arise when bicyclists begin challenging drivers, in the same way pedestrians do when crossing the Square. Everyone fights the cars, but this does not make the practice any less stupid...