Red, White and Bamboo - New York Times

Red, White and Bamboo - New York Times: "Red, White and Bamboo




By ALAN LIGHTMAN
Published: July 5, 2005

Phnom Penh

THE chief of Tramung Chrum is a small, white-haired man of about 60 with a crinkled face and a quiet dignity. When my family and I arrived at his remote village last week for the inauguration of its first brick-and-mortar school, he broke out in a huge grin and said (in Khmer through an interpreter), 'I feel like a hunter who has just captured an elephant.'"