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...sniping. I gave instructions that the section leader should give a burst of fire at any thick foliage or any windows that were open. The windows soon shut. We stopped to have a cup of tea; we stayed in the ditch, and one of the men who could speak fluent French brought back a pail of boiling water...
...Fluent in Russian and trained as a doctor's assistant, George Borayev, 23, of Asheville, N.C., was initially thrilled with his temp job as a real-life "interpreter of maladies" for immigrants seeking medical help from the county health department. "I was excited to get this job," Borayev says. "It uses my language, and it's in the same field as my degree." He worked happily as a contract employee for almost two years until this spring, when a tax bill close to $2,000 and a $1,000 emergency root canal pushed the drawbacks of perma-temping right...
...fortunes through Mafia connections. Most important, it promoted a younger generation of stalwarts, especially three comers known by their collective nickname Ma-Li-Chiang, or "strong horsepower": Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou, Taoyuan county magistrate Chu Li-lun and Taichung mayor Jason Hu Chih-chiang. All are under 55, fluent in English and untouched by corruption scandals (unlike Lien, a multimillionaire whose family wealth critics have linked to his father's use of KMT connections...
...Kerry is less American and somehow potentially unelectable because he is well educated, is fluent in more than one language, has good taste and is well groomed? If being elected President of the U.S. requires a candidate to speak like Clint Eastwood in a bad western, pretend to like Philly cheesesteaks and appeal to lowest-common-denominator redneck values, then God help us! Please give American voters more credit. Neil Fox Helsinki...
...Governor of New Mexico, which Gore won by fewer than 400 votes, and he has foreign-policy expertise, particularly on North Korea, having served as Bill Clinton's U.N. ambassador. He's a moderate who cut taxes, he's Hispanic, and he's fluent en espanol--not Bush's Tex-Mex version either. But he's known for being too fond of the spotlight and had a troubled term as Energy Secretary under Clinton. Remember...