Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YEARS AGO, I KNELT AND TOOK A RUBBING from the Vietnam Memorial wall in Washington--the name of Aloysius P. McGonigal. I knew the story of his death. McGonigal, a Jesuit priest, had found his way to Vietnam as a chaplain. During the Tet offensive in early 1968, he seized an M-16 and tried to storm the citadel in the old imperial capital of Hue. He died going up the hill, with a communist's bullet in his head...
...Rhodes Scholarship is an achievement on the same scale, meriting the same deference. An equal difficulty for the Mandarins, but more correctable, is that they like to impose rules on the rest of the country that they don't have to play by. The best example is the Vietnam War, which the Mandarins dreamed up and then didn't fight in. Lifers and Talents see the Mandarins as being selectively compassionate--about racism and sexism and international human rights, but not crime or falling wages--and then creating remedies that affect everybody but them. The idea that (in the words...
...prosthetics), but turns Leno into a simpering moron. Yet these characters, at least, will be recognizable to viewers. The rest of The Late Shift is a parade of TV executives known to few in the audience, but all scrupulously identified onscreen as if this were a documentary on the Vietnam peace talks. (Look, it's John Agoglia, president of NBC Productions!) The Late Shift is the ultimate in inside baseball...
...killed so senselessly -- whatever the motive -- shows us that violence is no less a threat in the streets of our own cities than it was in Cambodia." In "The Killing Fields," Ngor portrayed Dith Pran, an aide to New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg during the Vietnam War. The actor actually had lived through strikingly similar horrors, as both were imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge regime that killed millions of Cambodians. In a recent memoir, he wrote of watching his wife die in childbirth because had he revealed his training as a doctor, he would have been executed. "Maybe...
...their junior year, students choose which country they wish to study: China, Japan, Korea or Vietnam. Those who focus on Japan or China specialize even further by choosing a humanities or social sciences track...