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Dressed in light cords and deck shoes, with sunglasses dangling from his sweatshirt, Son Nguyen, 18, seems like any other carefree high school graduate in Houston. "But if my mother saw me today, she would be shocked," confesses Son, who fled Ho Chi Minh City at age eight with a younger brother, his older sister and her husband. "I wouldn't be her boy anymore. I would be an American stranger." Still, within the two-story brick house he shares with eight other people, Son becomes a model Vietnamese youth, industrious, responsible, deferential. In that household, Vietnamese is spoken, Vietnamese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Caught Between Two Worlds for Children, | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...divorcee found work cementing shoes in a factory and rented a two-story house. She worked extra hours to pay her bills and, according to the Washington Post, would arrive home "in jeans and a sweatshirt covered with soot and glue, too tired to change clothes." Shalel Way, a friend in Skowhegan, told the Post that Barbara would complain, "Johnny Walker did this to me." She shared her secret with Way, even asking for a Tarot card reading to help her decide whether to tell the FBI. She claimed that John would get drunk, call her on the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Very Serious Losses | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...Squash Club an applicant should look "casual and sporty. You come in sneakers and maybe a white sweatshirt-something that shows you're athletic, says clerk Bernadette Thompson "You shouldn't wear a lot of jewelry or make...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnockin, | Title: But What Do I Wear? | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...unidentified person stole a sweatshirt, keys, and a Harvard ID left unattended in the IAB weightroom last Saturday afternoon. Total value is $30. There are no suspects in the case...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Pipe Swinger, Theives Plague Harvard Campus | 3/16/1985 | See Source »

...intercom; and here's the Devil, complete with cigar and sinister Texan accent. Ah, the evils of big business. Ernest begins his meteoric rise to the top as overseer to the Seven Deadly Sins (Norma Lindabl), here a collection of painfully unwitty caricatures: Envy, for instance, wears a Yale sweatshirt. Bring on Lee Lacocca instead and spare us the trouble. Well-prepared by his MBA, Ernest learns the topes quickly and manages to impeach the Devil as president of the company, only to be in turn dethroned underhandedly by none other than the secretly depraved Prudence. At this point occurs...

Author: By Yoon SUN Lee, | Title: The Devil Made Me Do It | 3/8/1985 | See Source »

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