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...they found their imperative in the fury with which the Asian American community reacted to Fong’s j’accuse. “We a saw a collective yearning to be understood and heard,” Han said...
...reach easy street and turn north. Shots fired from a westerly direction clang off a metal pole above one Marine running exposed along the eastern side of the street. As troops return fire, 3rd platoon members rush up a dilapidated staircase, taking another rooftop position. They had understood that another company would halt traffic moving down Easy Street, but cars keep coming. Warning shots force some to back up. But one car, then a truck, then another car, react to the warning shots by speeding up, at which point the Marines shoot first the tires, then the windshield...
From the start, everyone understood that filming in Afghanistan would be a risky undertaking. Only a few months earlier, the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan had shaken the world of journalism. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the filming commenced amid chaos: the day before their team landed in Afghanistan vice-president Haji Qadir was assassinated, and the crew’s first twenty-four hours in Kabul were punctuated by multiple bomb threats...
...Jimmy’s Carter weakness, but mainly a new conservative agenda to end arms control, rebuild the military, aid anti-Communists and thus (they believed) defeat the Soviet Union. This was the coherent policy vision Ronald Reagan could consistently embrace; this was the program the voters of 1980 understood they would be getting...
...weeks learning about it, and men of my expert status don’t waste time hobnobbing with the uninitiated hoi polloi. Just know that I did something so hardcore that not only was I in possession of extremely sensitive and confidential information, I actually often read and understood it. Occasionally I was also responsible for delivering said information to various members of our and other firms. Once I even spell-checked a Powerpoint presentation that was being given to the CFO of a Fortune 500 corporation. The CFO! I considered changing the order of the bullet-points in favor...