Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the exception, perhaps, of Bill Clinton. And Gingrich's life has surprising -- if often superficial -- parallels with the President's. Both are Southerners. They are about the same age (Gingrich, at 51, is three years older). Both own classic Ford Mustangs. Both got deferments from the Vietnam draft (Clinton's 2-S student dodge, Gingrich's 3-A married-with-children exemption). They share dopey explanations for marijuana use. (Clinton: "I didn't inhale." Gingrich: "I tried it once; it had no effect on me.") Both took the names of their stepfathers (Clinton was born Blythe; Gingrich, McPherson). Most...
...read much serious fiction other than the novels of his cousin John Edgar Wideman (Philadelphia Story). "The writer I admire the most is the person who wrote Black Beauty, the horse book," says French, without a hint of irony. Two more of his novels -- Patches of Fire, about Vietnam, and Holly, an interracial love story set in North Carolina in 1944 -- will soon be published...
...month-old strike has successfully killed what two World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the Great Depression couldn't kill: the World Series...
...speech, co-sponsored by the Korean Institute and the Institute of Politics, Sung-Joo encouraged North Korea to recognize and appreciate its cultural similarities to China and Vietnam, other countries emerging from communism...
...haid- clean-off dudgeon metamorphosed -- surprise! -- into Jimmy Carter's dropping from the sky into Port-au-Prince. The voodoo of appeasement. Erstwhile murderer-torturer-rapists deserving nothing less than violent eviction (even if the invasion violates U.S. popular and congressional opinion and virtually every lesson learned in Vietnam) became, in the sunshine of Carter's smile and hunger for a Nobel Prize, honorable men. General Cedras has a "slim and very attractive" wife, Carter told the New York Times. And Lady Macbeth was a gracious hostess. Cedras, a notably bloody and ruthless man on a bloody, miserable island, should...