Word: vietnamization
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...screens. Now other airlines are following suit - this year, Continental, KLM and Air France began offering the onboard language-tuition program, which teaches the basics of up to 23 languages in 21 languages. So should you be from Brazil and need to brush up on your Tamil, or from Vietnam and require a few phrases of Arabic, a course option will have it covered. The lessons are structured by theme - numbers, dates, words and dialogue - and there are tests and games to keep you entertained. Passengers who complete a course may even get a certificate. Now that's surely...
...that this paradigm reveals its affinity for gross, unmitigated violence. Because “terrorists” are placed beyond understanding, their elimination is almost never conceptualized as a political problem, but a military one. Eqbal Ahmed, in an influential 1965 article on counter-revolutionary warfare in Vietnam, suggested that American administrators were destined to decimate the local, civilian population because they began in precisely this way, by rejecting the primacy of politics. Perhaps the best example of this genocidal impulse came not too much later in 1970, when the gap endemic to such a mindset enabled Nobel Peace laureate...
...Today in Western Europe, moderate service charges are often tacked onto bills. Even in the U.K. a paltry 10 percent tip is the norm in restaurants. In Eastern Europe and in much of Scandinavia, tipping is not expected, but occasionally done, and in countries like Japan, New Zealand, and Vietnam, tipping is simply not practiced...
...substance, lacks true cohesion—lacks whatever it is that makes a work captivating, wonderful, or enjoyable.Despite its promise and its moments of greatness and beauty, “Tree of Smoke” ultimately proves enigmatic, inaccessible, and disappointing. In the novel, which is mostly set in Vietnam from 1963 to 1970, “Tree of Smoke” is the name of a covert operation, the brainchild of a powerful, charismatic CIA operative known simply as the Colonel. It is the Colonel’s obsession to use a double agent, a philosophically disillusioned North Vietnamese...
...positive organization,” he added. Bilotti said he hopes ROTC will lead a color guard at Commencement this spring. Harvard’s relationship with ROTC, which was banned from campus in 1969 due to concerns about the military’s involvement in Vietnam, has improved in recent years. Former President Lawrence H. Summers broke with precedent and spoke at the annual ROTC ceremony every year during his presidency. Harvard and other elite universities have barred military recruiters from their campuses due to the military’s “don’t ask, don?...