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...Willard Milton. Anyone? Both names honor men close to Romney's father, former Michigan Governor George W. Romney. Mitt--short for Milton--comes from a cousin who played quarterback for the Chicago Bears from 1925 to '29. And Willard is derived from the elder Romney's close friend and fellow Mormon J. Willard Marriott, who founded the eponymous hotel chain...
...When he was 21 and a fighter pilot in the Marine Corps during World War II, Jefferson DeBlanc Sr. protected his fellow aces by shooting down five Japanese warplanes during a mission over the Solomon Islands--even though his own plane was nearly out of gas and he knew he could not make it back to base. He swam eight miles to an island, where one indigenous tribe traded him to another--which helped ferry him to safety--for a 10-lb. sack of rice. DeBlanc was awarded the Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart and other decorations...
When the court received a document in which Hans Frank had urged his fellow Nazis to keep the slaughter secret, Frank dropped his air of moping repentance, threw back his head and laughed...
...majority of my fellow Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics” veterans, I must already sound truly irrational, even heretical. Because we have been force-fed the message that our world today progresses more rapidly than ever thanks to open markets, free trade, and liberated entrepreneurs, any mention of an anti-capitalist agenda is likely to be dismissed with derision. Yet now, arguably more urgently than ever, it is incumbent upon us to cast off the shackles of that theology of free-market liberation and come to terms with the actual dynamics of the world...
...News also announced on Monday that they would co-sponsor two presidential debates in New Hampshire on January 5, only three days before the primary election. “I’m all for it,” said Washington Post reporter Maralee Schwartz, an IOP fellow who leads a study group on connecting politicians with voters. “These kids do not turn on ABC Nightly News, so it works for the students because they can get some political information.” The collaboration is a sign that Facebook is taking on a new role...