Word: vo
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...VO NGUYEN GIAP INDIRA GANDHI THEODORE ROOSEVELT SIRIMAVO BANDARANAIKE MARGARET THATCHER IDI AMIN DADA FIDEL CASTRO LECH WALESA EVA PERON FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT HO CHI MINH CHE GUEVARA F.W. DE KLERK NELSON MANDELA V.I. LENIN BENAZIR BHUTTO KEMAL ATATURK GOLDA MEIR DAVID BEN-GURION MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK POL POT ADOLF HITLER...
...place? He has already shown a Clintonian flexibility. In speeches prior to the NATO bombing he used the Serbian "Ko-sovo." During the war, he switched to the Albanian "Ko-so-va." There is a third option, the Arkansas variant, which he has drawled on occasion: "Ko-so-vo." It's wrong, but under the circumstances, it may be the safe...
...Tony Vo, manager of Classic Tuxedo on Bow Street, doesn't think a cane comeback has much of a chance. "People are too violent," he says. "If they brought canes, they would hit each other." Nevertheless, he has a stockpile of canes in the back room of his store. His personal pick is simple in its elegance--black with white tips--resembling most closely a magic wand. Keezer's near MIT also offers a similar selection at a slightly greater hassle...
...days in jail for hitting his wife (he's sorry and admits he learned that in America, you're not allowed to beat your spouse). And no, the media don't want to interview him about the time he tried to wrest control of a Vietnamese meditation group called Vo Vi (his critics said he proclaimed himself God; Tran says he left to pursue a simpler life). Rather, they want to know why he is the target of one of the most heated displays of Asian-American anger ever seen...
...even at those odds, you will lose and I will win." The French, convinced of their superiority, ignored his warning and suffered grievously as a result. Senior American officers similarly nurtured the illusion that their sophisticated weapons would inevitably break enemy morale. But, as Ho's brilliant commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap, told me in Hanoi in 1990, his principal concern had been victory. When I asked him how long he would have resisted the U.S. onslaught, he thundered, "Twenty years, maybe 100 years--as long as it took to win, regardless of cost." The human toll was horrendous...