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...case particularly in countries like the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, where American G.I.s left thousands of unwelcome offspring. In Vietnam, these children were dubbed bui doi, or the dust of life. "Being a bui doi means you are the child of a Vietnamese bar girl and an American soldier," says Henry Phan, an Amerasian tour guide in Ho Chi Minh City. "Here, in Vietnam, it is not a glamorous thing to be mixed." As a child in Bangkok during the early 1990s, Nicole Terio fended off rumors that her mother was a prostitute, even though her parents...
...Just what does this tussle contribute to the sum of the violence? At the start of last week, Hezbollah attacked an Israeli position on the border with Lebanon, killing an Israeli soldier. That attack prompted a jealous Hamas to step up its mortar offensive along the Israel border, firing for the first time on a town inside Israel. Desperate to demonstrate that it can still do more than put on a defiant show at the funerals of its "martyrs," Hamas fired a series of 82-mm mortars on the Israeli town of Sderot. "We have to prove ourselves," the Hamas...
...lead. "It's our air crew--they are military people," Pentagon spokesman Craig Quigley said. "But if you think of a military solution to this, that's not the way ahead. The way ahead is a diplomatic one." Rumsfeld, known to favor a hard line, was ever the good soldier. "Right now he agrees with everything that's being done," a close Rumsfeld aide said. "He's been involved with this thing from the beginning, but he has no desire to stand out." And so it was Bush himself who went before the cameras on Monday to read a statement...
...been easy, during Ariel Sharon's election campaign, to dismiss as alarmist - even hysterical - his opponent's warnings that the old soldier would plunge Israel back into war. But Monday's bombing of a Syrian position in Lebanon, coming on top of three weeks of escalated military activity against the Palestinians, certainly suggests that Israeli reservists shouldn't be too surprised if they find themselves spending more time with their units in the near future. Three Syrian soldiers were reported killed and a number were injured in the air strike on a Syrian radar facility near Beirut, bombed in retribution...
...radical approach to school reform. In the early years of our country, students went to college at an age where our current young people are marking time in high school. And it was not only the elite who were so well-educated. Read the letters of a Revolutionary War soldier for yourself or take a history test from an 1865 textbook to determine the education level of the average person...