Word: vietnamize
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...road to the White House. He has been holding private dinners with potential fund raisers and policy advisers, signaling he might run again and blaming his political strategists for many of the mistakes his campaign made last year, such as not responding swiftly to ads attacking his Vietnam service. He has set up a political-action committee to finance his travels around the country, which will include stops in 20 cities over the next two months to give speeches and headline fund raisers for other Democrats. And he is constantly e-mailing his list of more than 3 million supporters...
...Despite her success, Yu has no plans to quit Vietnam for the bright lights of the world's fashion capitals, preferring to supervise production in Hanoi. "I really wanted to show the local craftsmen that they could make something like a handbag into an exportable item," she says. Breaking new ground is all in a day's work for the girl from Ipa-Nima...
...grievously wounded men at Landstuhl would have been killed, having bled to death on the battlefield or succumbed in a hospital to wounds so severe that their armor could not protect them and doctors could not save them. In World War II, 1 in 3 wounded soldiers died; in Vietnam, 1 in 4. In the Iraq war, the rate is 1 in 8. That remarkable statistic is due in part to the doctors and nurses at Landstuhl, who've transformed what was once a sleepy military hospital into a top-line trauma center. As of last week, just over...
...year when three future U.S. Presidents passed through formative ordeals and emerged reborn--launched toward their destinies. All three of those destinies would be literally or politically fatal years later, in the Vietnam-Watergate era, which, in turn, formed the U.S.'s present leaders. The year 1948 was the seedbed...
...Barney's in Manhattan, and Harvey Nichols in London. Although diehard fashionistas were quick to discover Ipa-Nima, it's only in the past couple of seasons that the buzz has reached fever pitch, with celebrity endorsement setting the seal. Despite her success, Yu has no plans to quit Vietnam for the bright lights of the world's fashion capitals, preferring to supervise production in Hanoi. "I really wanted to show the local craftsmen that they could make something like a handbag into an exportable item," she says. Breaking new ground is all in a day's work...