Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Raised a devout Roman Catholic in Quang Ngai, Vietnam, she left home at 22 to study in England, eventually becoming an interpreter for the Red Cross. At 30, she met and married a German doctor but left him, amicably she says, to become a Buddhist nun and pursue enlightenment in India. Her recognition as a spiritual leader came rather suddenly in 1982 when she tried to buy a copy of the Hindu sacred work the Bhagavad-Gita that she says she saw in a shop along the Ganges. The shopkeepers said there were none in stock; she insisted...
...leaders of his new country. He admits that he enjoyed being seduced by John Kennedy but that he also saw in J.F.K. "signs of ruthlessness and the glib assumption of privilege." Grunwald never believed that Kennedy, had he lived, would have reversed the direction of American involvement in Vietnam, but, he adds, "part of me loved America loving Kennedy...
Grunwald made many forays around the world, adding his own impressions to those of the correspondents who reported for his magazine. Like most of those in power at the time, he was reluctant to give up on America's war in Vietnam, but after one trip to Saigon, reported back to his colleagues in New York that the best result one could reasonably expect was a standoff with North Vietnam. He takes responsibility, however, for writing, above a TIME essay defending the war, this headline: THE RIGHT WAR AT THE RIGHT TIME...
...parents passionately demonstrated against the civil rights violations in Vietnam; we heatedly protest the lack of flaky tuna in the Annenberg salad bar. Our parents traveled to Birmingham and Mobile, joining with southern blacks to challenge segregation and discrimination; we bravely venture to the Malkin Athletic Center and demand that the school provide improved athletic facilities. Obviously, the issues that confront our lives here at Harvard are significant. However, beyond extending dinner hours or increasing the celerity of e-mail lies an international arena full of pressing humanitarian concerns. We are often so involved with our lives here on campus...
...vary from 15% to about 33%. For them, the promising developments all around only threaten to deepen their isolation. They worry about being left behind, artifacts of an earlier stage of the epidemic. "I've taken them all, and I've failed them all," says Ron Wilmot, 46, a Vietnam veteran whose weakened condition led him two years ago to sell his half of a San Francisco real estate firm...