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...else to explain the conspicuously public dinner in Washington last week between Bloomberg and Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, the Vietnam veteran and G.O.P. apostate who has come out in full opposition to President Bush and the continuation of the Iraq War? Hagel has toyed with the idea of running for the G.O.P. nomination. But he's an outsider now within the Republican family; having attacked Bush, he'd be doomed in a G.O.P. primary. Hagel's only avenue, like Bloomberg's, would be a third-party bid. It doesn't hurt that Hagel happened to make millions...
Cordiner's brainstorm began in 2002 as a pilot project in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam for the International Finance Corp. (IFC), an arm of the World Bank that provides advice and backing for start-ups. The idea, says Cordiner, 57, was to simplify life for both hoteliers, who need business, and travelers, who want a reliable way to book ahead. A Worldhotel-link.com franchise partner in each destination city provides English-language content for the site and makes sure mouse clicks to the booking engine translate into rock-solid reservations. In some cases, that means a dash down the street...
...Need inspiration? Look no further than 1969. When students took over University Hall that year to protest the Vietnam War, they were motivated by the May ’68 unrest in France, where university students took over Parisian streets. Though clubbed by the police, Harvard’s revolutionaries held on; professors aided them with food; fellow undergraduates boycotted classes in support. Eventually, the single cry of a united campus, brought together under a political message...
...Fowler did not comment on the matter Thursday. Beck said he was uncertain about details of the Alabaster shooting, but he said the 1968 altercation occurred when Fowler was mourning the death of his brother in Vietnam and there was a disagreement over sick...
...deeply in love with Ann, his high school sweetheart and future wife, and couldn't bear to spend more than two years away from her. He says he also felt guilty about the draft deferment he would get for it, when other young men his age were heading for Vietnam. In the end, it was Ann - a convert to Mormonism from having been a once-a-year churchgoing Episcopalian - who persuaded him to go, saying he would always regret it if he didn't. He didn't convert many Frenchmen but found the experience was something that "concentrates the mind...