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...politicos together? None of them had a transition period. Unlike current lame duck George Bush, none had 11 weeks to cover up mistakes or to begin long-overdue policy initiatives. No time to look pensive in public. In some ways Bush has outdone these three fallen heroes in the twilight of his political career, but his seemingly altruistic activities in recent weeks raise disturbing questions about the cynicism of his entire presidency...

Author: By Dante E.A. Ramos, | Title: Presidential Danse Hall Days | 1/4/1993 | See Source »

Regis Wargnier's Indochine takes a gentler, more comprehensive approach. It suggests that the French, at the twilight of their long rule in Indochina, saw themselves not as the region's colonizers -- ravaging its natural and human resources -- but as its foster parents, nourishing a lovely, lorn child with the civilizing bounty of French culture. That, anyway, is Indochine's explicit metaphor. Eliane (Catherine Deneuve), the owner of a rubber plantation, raises Camille (Linh Dan Pham), an orphan princess of Annam, as her own daughter. What could separate these two beautiful women? Only the nationalist uprising of the 1940s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mademoiselle Saigon | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...Asian-American Association will host the only campus-wide party: "The Twilight Zone" in Memorial Hall, featuring DJ's and live music from Shiuan Liu '95 and The Latin Boys...

Author: By Evan P. Cucci, | Title: HUPD on Patrol | 11/21/1992 | See Source »

...Twilight Zone. Harvard-Yale Post-GameParty featuring Shiuan Liu and The Latin Boys (oohla la). Free food and cash bar. Please bringproper ID. Memorial Hall, 9 p.m. Admission in $5from 9 to 10 p.m. and $7 after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...more than 30 years since John F. Kennedy put American advisers into Vietnam, 17 since Gerald Ford pulled the last troops out. That should be enough hindsight for a clear view of the bottom line, especially because the larger, longer conflict of which Vietnam was a part -- the great twilight struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union -- is also now over at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The War That Will Not End | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

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