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...Thanh Phong, as elsewhere in Vietnam, life has gone on. Children go to school. Parents fish, plant rice or plan shrimp farms. "People just want to make a living," Nhi says. "Even I have to move on." Still, she's not sure if she would accept an apology from Kerrey today. "If I met him, I don't know if I would try to kill him or curse him," she says. "I don't think I'd want to say anything...
...conventional struggle in which success is measured by gaining territory. In Vietnam, by contrast, there were no front lines to advance; the war was pervasive. An apparently benign peasant could be a guerrilla, a pretty prostitute a clandestine agent, the kid who delivered the laundry a secret informer. Flooded rice fields concealed spikes, booby traps permeated jungles, and barracks were vulnerable to terrorist attacks. No wonder the grunts were paranoid and their commanders frustrated. So strategy was reduced to a basic formula: kill as many of the enemy as possible in hopes of breaking their morale. We deployed our vast...
...Shenzhen, the relationship is something more akin to step-twins. Shenzhen was virtually decreed into existence: in 1980 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping clicked his fingers and invited the people of dynamic, British-owned Hong Kong to make something of the 3.5 sq km stretch of fishing villages and rice paddies just over the border. What arose was a kind of twisted sister, a town of skyscrapers and sweatshops, laissez-faire business and institutionalized lust. Shenzhen is where Hong Kongers go to make love and make money, and a magnet for people from all over impoverished China, who sneak or bribe...
...From the beginning, certain names came to mind. Within the University, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg `67, Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin and Business School Dean Kim B. Clark `74 were oft-mentioned. Beyond the gates, former Stanford Provost Condoleezza "Condi" Rice, the Dean of Stanford Law School Kathleen M. Sullivan, Nobel Laureate Harold E. Varmus, and a little-known—at least in the academic world—Treasury Secretary named Lawrence H. Summers were considered viable options...
...Bollinger got to stay on the list. So did Clark, Fineberg, Summers, Sullivan. Others did not. Condi Rice was too busy getting George W. Bush elected president to deal with the Harvard presidency. Richard Klausner, director of the National Center Institute, just did not seem to have "it." Varmus, it turned out, was not interested...