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Tran Van Ngoc was walking to school the first time he saw the planes trailing clouds of white fog. The 16-year-old stopped to watch as the American aircraft circled his village and the mist settled to earth. "It smelled sweet, like ripe guava," he recalls. It was a routine repeated every morning for a year, and soon the village got used to it?just as they got used to a barren landscape, with tree leaves turning black and branches withering...
...milk. In one practiced motion he scooped a plate of ice into a plastic sack, poured in the steaming coffee, stabbed it with a straw and deftly secured the bag with a rubber band. Poon triumphantly handed me the kafae thung and eyed me as I sipped the potent, sweet brew. "Very good Thai coffee," he said, scowling at the empty Starbucks cup rolling around the bottom of the boat. I agreed...
Wang Manji was returning home with freshly dug sweet potatoes from her fields last October when she stepped into the most bitter event of her life. A deranged neighbor had abducted her 15-year-old son and was holding him ransom with a meat cleaver. His demands: $100 and a car. Fifty policemen came to the rescue?and then, Wang says, the dithering began. The abductor claimed to be related to a top cop, and, Wang says, "the officers spent all their time trying to figure out what kind of a relative he was." After a fruitless, 8-hr. standoff...
After a scoreless second period, the Harvard power play struck again early in the third. This time, Pettit got the puck at his sweet spot above the right faceoff circle and blasted it by Danis to make it 3-0 just 27 seconds...
Harvard opened the scoring just after a powerplay six minutes into the game. Ingram sent the puck to freshman linemate Nicole Corriero at the point. Freshman winger Kat Sweet, now a regular on the Crimson powerplay, tipped Corriero’s shot past Van Beusekom for the goal...