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...sign: it meant that the NVA was methodically encircling Saigon without encountering much resistance. There was enough fighting, however, to impress Nam Pham, then a college freshman. Every night during that last week of April, he would climb to the roof of his family's house in a Saigon suburb and watch the flashes of bombs and gunfire coming ever closer. Says Pham: "It gave me kind of a weird feeling, watching something you love so much lost a little bit every...
...education is stretched just to cover the basics. Class sizes are inching up; music, sports and other activities are being eliminated. In communities rich enough for parents to pitch in and pay for some of these "extras,'' there is an understandable impulse to do so. In the Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, for example, the Parent Volunteer Association of the Joseph Sears primary school raised $92,000 last year to build a new playground. Similarly, a parent booster club at the Kenter Canyon elementary school in tony Brentwood, California (where one parent periodically sends her gardener over to tend the grounds...
...tony suburb of Dallas, Nobody's You aspires to nothing beyond frivolous entertainment: a bit of comedy here, a bit of romance there, all mediated by the Southern accents and smooth dialogue of Roberts' script. The production is by no means flawless, and the plot smacks of TV sitcoms, but both are solid enough to carry the audience through the myriad gags and delectable characters that make up the meat and fluffy potatoes of the show...
...keeping with an African-American literary tradition of "writing oneself into being," Souljah articulates her individual experience in opposition to and as part of a collective Black experience. Branded by the culture of distrust and mental devastation of the projects, Souljah takes us with her to an integrated suburb, on to college, into public service, and to the eventual production of her album, 360 Degrees of Power...
Chapa called the relationship between Munoz Rocha and Raul Salinas ``close'' and cited phone records and testimony of witnesses to document their ``discreet but consistent'' contact before and after the murder. Chapa said Munoz Rocha made two calls from a hideout in the suburb of Pachuca afterward; the first was to Raul Salinas. Before he disappeared in Pachuca on Sept. 29, Munoz Rocha visited the home of Raul Salinas. Finally, Chapa added, Munoz Rocha had told his secretary that Raul Salinas ordered and financed the murder...