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During a stint at Yale, Cheney was moved by a course he took from H. Bradford Westerfield, then a self-described ardent hawk who believed the U.S. should use its role as the leader of the free world to fight communism wherever it took hold. Cheney has often told friends that the first author to have a profound impact on his thinking was Winston Churchill, whose multivolume history of World War II impressed upon Cheney the idea that leadership in world affairs is about recognizing dangers and confronting them rather than wishing them away...
...deceased nurse who had been doling out tabloid therapy under that pseudonym. With witty, blunt pointers ("A father who diapers his daughter at the age of 12 has a geranium in his cranium"), a heartfelt respect for her readers and a willingness to change her mind, she earned an ardent following of 90 million readers. Dubbed the country's most influential woman by a World Almanac poll in 1978, Lederer cherished her ability to help and read several hundred letters a day while soaking in the bathtub. Offers to buy rights to the Ann Landers name were declined. "When...
After a week of ardent campaigning in which all candidates have clamored for radical reform, The Crimson confidently endorses Rohit Chopra ’04 and Jessica R. Stannard-Friel ’04 for president and vice president of the Undergraduate Council. Chopra and Stannard-Friel have the experience and vision to implement their ambitious platform and to rescue the council from the unfulfilled promises and squandered credibility that have characterized the past year...
...Generation X's first affair. Before Monica, before Whitewater, there was Iran-contra. It has been 15 years since Ollie North made his ardent defense of the secret exchange with Iran of arms for hostages. But a growing number of Iran-contra-rians have found their way back to high positions in the Bush Administration. Here, a rundown. --By Eric Roston...
...personal life, Barker was also an ardent salmon fisher, skier and tennis player, said his son, James R. Barker...