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...want to reminisce anymore about the miraculously sunny hillside ceremony or the super rockin' dance party at the reception. I can't really turn to my husband either, the only other person as emotionally invested in my wedding as I am, because he's 9,000 miles away in Vietnam. After the big to-do, which we spent a year planning long-distance, he's back living and working in Saigon and I'm back in Manhattan - living with my grandmother. Talk about a letdown...
...between interviews with the players from both sides and original footage of the Game while making note of the tumultuous historical events of the 1960s.In the film, former defensive back Patrick A. Conway ’69 describes his experiences on campus and in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Conway played alongside a member of the radical anti-war group Students for a Democratic Society—underscoring the role of football in uniting Harvard during an era of war and protest.Even though the ’68 Game took place four decades ago, its outcome still inspires...
...Japanese values conjured up little more than a picture of workaholic company drones. But throughout the world - even in places where Japanese colonialists once unleashed brutal wartime campaigns - the world's second largest economy has suddenly been thrust into the unfamiliar position of exemplar. Developing countries such as Vietnam are studying how Japan refashioned its war-ravaged economy into a technological powerhouse that still maintains its cultural identity. Industrializing nations are looking for ecological guidance from a place that has managed to become an economic giant while still embracing a conservationist ethos. Still others gravitate toward Japan because...
...marketed its love of country. In 2005 it declared itself America's most patriotic city, and even floated the idea of writing fake tickets to drivers of foreign cars. Behind the bluster is an insecurity that dates back to the days when Fort Bragg was a staging ground for Vietnam-bound troops. While the base was training draftees for combat, Fayetteville's sudden glut of strip clubs and bars seemed to be training them for a debauched night out in Saigon. People called the town Fayettenam, a slur that hasn't lost its sting. "I despise that term," Blackwell says...
...Security Council moved in this direction last June by passing a resolution that allows foreign vessels to enter Somalia’s territorial waters and use “all necessary means” to combat piracy, a ruling that does not apply to other pirate hotspots such as Vietnam or Indonesia. While this resolution was a good start, a more concerted effort to stamp out piracy should be created through an international naval peacekeeping mission that controls waterways much like land-based peacekeeping missions...