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...want to attract people who are really interested," said Vi T. Nguyen '98, who runs the Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment program. "We're de-emphasizing the money...
...shelter behind the carapace of tradition and ceremony. With voluble outrage and grief to match our confessional age, editorial writers and citizens on the streets told their royal family that business as usual is not an acceptable reaction. Once upon a time it may have been enough. When George VI and his Queen remained stoically at Buckingham Palace to share with Londoners the horrors and dangers of the wartime blitz, he sealed the affections of his people and prepared the ground for the new Elizabethan era. But this, now, is a revolutionary era, and like the Bourbons it has caught...
...Queen--which may not be for decades, given that the Queen Mum is 97. But the one thing Charles will not do, according to people who study these matters, is step aside. "There is a slow, tenacious obstinacy about the man which is a characteristic of his grandfather George VI," Starkey notes. "He wants to be King." Says Lord Blake: "Charles' whole life has been geared to the assumption that he will be King. There is not the slightest evidence from anyone that he has any intention of giving it up." Even if he wanted to turn the throne over...
...been good in terms of exposing me to different fields I wasn't really thinking of, " said conference attendee Vi Thuy Nguyen, who directs a public service program, Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment, and is also co-president of the Harvard Vietnamese Association...
After Mack left UPI, he worked several public-relations jobs, finally joining NBC News, where he worked as a writer and occasional correspondent. Through his reporting at NBC, Mack says, he was pepper-gassed at a Black Panther trial in New Hampshire, covered Pope Paul VI at Yankee Stadium and worked the floor at both party conventions in the 1964 presidential race...