Word: vietnam
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...What about Manny's Time writing? Since the magazine's entire archive is available on TIME.com, the Farber columns should be easy to find. But Time critics did not get bylines until the Vietnam years, so you can't just put "Farber" in the Search panel and call up his stories. You must delve into the bound volumes of the magazine in 1949 and 1950, where, for each review, the author's name is written in the margin. Thanks to the yeoman work of Arts maven Amy Goehner and ace librarian Bill Hooper, we have a firmer handle on Manny...
...voters handpicked for their undecided status. There wasn't the fawning adulation and roaring waves of some Obama events, but the mostly older, white crowd left impressed. "I was surprised, given the convention, but I think it's great he's here," said David Ward, 58, a Vietnam veteran who is a veterans' advocate from Davenport. Ward said Obama's appearance, including his digs at McCain for being so out of touch that he didn't know how many houses he owned, "solidified" his vote. Obama "seems to know what we're thinking, what we need...
...slipped away from the campaign trail frequently this year: in March, McCain visited Kosovo with HALO to assess progress in clearing minefields there. In June, she was in Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, working with Operation Smile, the charity that helps disfigured children and on whose board she also serves. In July, she was in Rwanda, reviewing relief efforts by the World Food Programme. She plans to return to the U.S. from Georgia late Wednesday. "It's a very quick trip," she says...
...coastal city of Vung Tau charged Gadd with raping two minors, punishable by death by firing squad. Gadd denied these charges, but did confess to showering with at least one girl and sharing his bed with her because she was afraid of ghosts. According to Gadd's lawyer in Vietnam, Gadd paid the victims' families $2,000 each prior to the trial, and lesser charges for sexual abuse were subsequently filed...
...middle of the Vietnam War, aides to President Lyndon Johnson spoke of seeing "the light at the end of the tunnel" - that is, until the Tet offensive early in 1968 showed the light to be that of an onrushing train. Are we finally seeing light at the end of the Iraq tunnel? It's messy, it's not what we were promised, and it's not over yet... but the basic outlines of the conflict's conclusion are emerging...