Word: colins
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...said that Santos and Davis had asked him to help them land Oprah Winfrey, John Glenn or Colin Powell for the speech, but they were unsuccessful...
...director of the Institute of Politics (IOP), asked talk show host Oprah Winfrey if she would speak at Class Day ceremonies, Winfrey said no. When he asked Senator John H. Glenn (D-Ohio), a former astronaut, Glenn also said no. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell had the same answer...
...diplomatic phalanx went into furious motion last week as Washington stewed over martial means and ends. Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose Gulf War success carries great weight, spoke up on Kosovo after weeks of silence. A foreign policy imbroglio that requires military force needs clear, precise goals if that force is to be used wisely, advised the retired Army general. "You have to have pretty solid political objectives, and then apply decisive force to them," he said. "Nothing in the Powell doctrine says no casualties." He pointedly noted that the Gulf War planners...
...Colin Powell can do just about anything he wants. He could run for President, run a FORTUNE 500 corporation, a university or a foundation. The publisher of his best-selling autobiography, My American Journey, is begging him to write another. The crate of mail he gets each day is heavy with offers. My favorite is an offer to make a quick million by penning Chicken Soup for the Black Soul...
...kids who get him for free who really light him up. They get brighter, chattier, taller when he's around. As he sings along with a heartrendingly mangled rendition of America the Beautiful by students playing with instruments donated by VH-1, the unsentimental general gets misty-eyed. At Colin Powell Elementary School in Grand Prairie, Texas, the kids wanted to talk about the mystery of how those two boys at Columbine with their BMW and pampered, obstacle-free days could have become so hopeless. A child asked the general if he ever got sad. "Something makes me sad every...