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Hoang Thanh Thu, 41, once served as a technician in Hanoi's central railroad administration. Last week he sat in a dark makeshift hut of bamboo and straw matting and stated the obvious: "Life is hard. We all want to go some place else," he complained. "We all came to China hoping that this would be a route to another country...
...Malaysians opened fire on the refugees when they first tried to land, and many were later raped or robbed, the foursome wound up safely at a camp and were allowed to immigrate to America. "We have a different life and different customs," says Nga, who is a hospital technician, while her husband has qualified for his pharmacist license in the U.S. "But we can't regret what has happened before. We are luckier than most...
ERNIE CHRISTIAN, former deputy secretary of the Treasury for tax policy during Connally's tenure, now the top tax technician at Patten, Biggs and Blow, seemed to understand that the tax plan he had helped to conjure up for Chrysler was just one way to get the federal government to shell out the bucks. And he seemed a little confused that the politicians hadn't liked the tax credit plan better. After all, doing business through the tax code, which he called the guts of the economy, with fancy formulas and convoluted reasoning, is the best way to throw...
...with him, study it, and play it in the morning. His teacher was a very Prussian octogenarian named Frederick Zech, formerly professor of music at the conservatory in Potsdam. "He was a great disciplinarian," recalls the pupil. "He turned me from a Sloppy Joe into a good technician. If it hadn't been for that, I don't know what would have taken its place." But the effect of music on his later photography went deeper than inculcating a habit of technical excellence through discipline. "I can look at a fine photograph and sometimes I can hear music...
When Adams' first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras, was privately published in 1927, he was a fine technician who did not know much about the history of his own medium. He had not seen, or at any rate had not noticed, the work of his 19th century predecessors, Western landscape photographers like Carleton E. Watkins and Timothy H. O'Sullivan. He was still influenced by the so-called pictorialists, photographers given to arty blurs and poses. He also disliked the canonical painters of the American sublime, Bierstadt and Moran. "Indians and bears walking out to the edge...