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Like their American counterparts, the patients at Ha Bac are both proud and reticent, resigned to their wounds, sometimes angry, often confused. Says Vu Trung Hien, 43, paralyzed since 1968 by a shrapnel wound in the back sustained in Phuoc Long province: "I did my duty. But after I was wounded, I wondered if the war was right or wrong. It cost so much. I still wonder." His roommate, Hoang Dinh Trung, 39, was similarly disabled in 1972 in Quang Tri province during a B-52 raid. "I was only 18 when I was mobilized," he says. "Looking back...
...blame Harvard. Had the pre-med courses been a little bit more difficult, I would have dropped the sequence and wound up a VES major. Right now, I would be preparing for a career in chicken-bone sculpture. My only concern would be decreasing the number of aesthetic dissonances in my life...
...glutton for punishment? Perhaps so. I took more challenging and more interesting courses, and I wound up having to explain to my parents why my departmental GPA was almost two points lower than my overall GPA. Just the though of having to run through all those arguments once again is somewhat off-putting, which is precisely what Government had in mind when it chose to initiate its honors GPA requirement...
Fortunately for Richards, bidding to become the first woman Governor of Texas since Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson ruled the state from 1925 to 1927, Republican nominee Williams suffered a self-inflicted wound that could cripple him. He joked that bad weather was inevitable, like rape, and the only thing to do was to "relax and enjoy it." He said later he was kidding, an apology that may work with the so-called Bubba vote. Women may not be so forgiving, particularly those who were already leaning toward Richards as the pro-choice candidate...
...want to be compared to people like Suzanne Vega, because I don't like wishy-washy music." She declines to analyze her own work but is keen about rap, reggae and Michael Jackson ("He's a doll, he's a god") and is open as a wound about the lacerating Irish upbringing from which many of her lyrics spring ("I'm walking through the desert/ And I am not frightened although it's hot/ I have all that I requested/ And I do not want what I haven't got/ I have learned this from my mother...