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McCain’s political career has been marked by a deep sense of idealism and integrity, shaped by a lifetime of diverse experiences. A veteran of the Vietnam War, McCain was held as a prisoner of war for more than five years, enduring endless torture and interrogation, and at times, being denied any medical treatment. This memory informs McCain’s stance on torture—he is unequivocally against it. This sets him apart from much of the Republican Party (and many of his opponents), whose view of what constitutes torture is much more narrow. McCain?...
...McCain has no shortage of other people critiquing his record as well. His campaign has had to endure a string of third-party attacks, including one nasty message alleging that the former Vietnam POW had somehow betrayed his fellow American captives. While he enjoys a solid base of support in a state with a large population of active and retired members of the military, the former Vietnam POW is dogged in the state by the same burden that sank his candidacy in Iowa - his stance on immigration. On Friday, at a campaign rally in Mt. Pleasant, one McCain supporter, Mike...
...business from unraveling. Kim's company, Sunghwa Trading, makes socks for familiar Western brands including Calvin Klein and Gap. His is a business that competes on cost and not much else, which is why the majority of the world's sock supply comes from countries such as China and Vietnam where labor costs are low. Five years ago Kim opened a factory in Qingdao in northeast China to combat intensifying competition from Chinese garmentmakers, but that move wasn't enough to keep his profit margins from eroding. In 2005, he grabbed for an economic lifeline: he became...
...ever—47 percent—the rate still lagged well behind that of all other age groups. 2003’s 200,000 person-strong march against the War in Iraq doesn’t compare to the half-a-million-person 1969 and 1971 demonstrations against Vietnam . Marches on Washington Mall, it seems, have been replaced by Facebook groups and lunch counter sit-ins by Product [Red] T-shirts...
...PROBLEMWright-Swadel, the OCS director, says that throughout his time as a career adviser students have factored company reputations into their employment decisions.“In the 60s and 70s, companies like Dow Chemical were an issue for students because of their involvement with making napalm in Vietnam,” he says. And “major petroleum companies like Exxon have their environmental problems, like the Valdez incident,” he adds, referring to a massive oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989.But moral concerns are often short-lived.“I would...