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...apparently not their children. Yesterday's evening news reported the existence of numbers of abandoned children of American GI's and South Vietnamese women. Because of the racial particularism of the Vietnamese, these children are regarded as another shameful wound inflicted by the American presence. As such, we owe the Vietnamese the immediate removal of these our unwanted children, along with our napalm, our bombs, and our soldiers...
...Faculty, citing his own past: "When I first became a professor, they held up my appointment for over a year, because I was too radical. My impression over about thirty years at Harvard is that it's the Left that has been generally protected by academic freedom. I owe my own presence here for about ten years to the fact that I couldn't be fired...
...been the leading advocate of purbodesh (regional autonomy) for East Pakistan. In last December's elections, purbodesh was Mujib's chief issue. After visiting the cyclone-devastated Ganges Delta region just before the general elections, he declared: "If the polls bring us frustration, we will owe it to the million who have died in the cyclone to make the supreme sacrifice of another million lives, if need be, so that we can live as free people...
...cried," George's sister Helen recalls. "He broke his nose playing football; he cut his head open diving into somebody in a swimming pool; he was hit by a golf club and run over by a car." Says Scott: "With a couple of exceptions, I was completely unloved. I owe much of my being alive to my sister, who more or less raised me. We were abnormally close...
...name of realism or scope or any other arbitrary criterion. But I suspect that would say more about us than the films. They promise nothing; they explain nothing; they give us only simple unaffected fantasy. But they succeed as far as we let them and, deserters all, we owe something to the supernatural...