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Jacob Singer (Robbins) endures constant nightmares about a crucial fight in Vietnam when his unit was fiercely attacked by a Vietnamese unit. Or was it? His confusion is magnified by the demons who keep appearing, cameo appearances that culminate in the apparent rape of his girlfriend. And amazingly enough, it just goes downhill from there. Although the ending is hinted at throughout, its flimsy spirituality distracts from the film’s strength: relentless urban horror that makes the Book of Job look like...
Back in 1991, Nguyen was in Tony’s position. Three days after her family moved to Boston from Vietnam, Nguyen’s parents enrolled her in BRYE’s eight-week summer program. “The moment I set foot in this country, I was introduced to BRYE,” she says. “I remember being at the bus stop when the van came...
...economics concentrator, Nguyen says that if she were to do a thesis, which is a “very strong possibility,” it would be about how economics affects human rights in Vietnam. “I love that topic. I feel passionate about anything Vietnam related, so it would be easy for me to write a thesis about Vietnam or learn about Vietnam because I would be so motivated...
...protests against the Bush administration’s Iraq policy on the Mall in Washington, D.C., and as Harvard’s own vocal antiwar movement held demonstrations this past week, perhaps we all should take note of how Kerry became one of the most prominent opponents of the Vietnam...
Kerry’s opposition to the war in Vietnam was not based on the premise that our actions in Vietnam were evil or malicious. His primary mode of criticism was not that the government was trying to inflict misery on the Vietnamese population, nor was it that we had alienated ourselves from world opinion. Rather, as a courageous veteran of the war (he was awarded three purple hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star) he criticized the Vietnam War because of the devastating effects it had on our men in uniform—the 58,000 deaths...