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...Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill; Alone: 1932-1940 by William Manchester (1988). Although not as long or crammed as Martin Gilbert's official eight-volume life of Winnie, Volume II of Manchester's opus takes the irrepressible Brit through the gathering storm to the first thunderclaps of World War II and demonstrates that the author is one of today's best writers of narrative prose...
Courage came so naturally to Sakharov that it heartened others. Dressed in a worn suit and bedroom slippers, the tall, perpetually bent-over man with shy eyes displayed a lion's boldness when defying the Kremlin. Mocking his own quixotic ways, he once dubbed himself Andrei the Blessed, an honorific that in Russian connotes a kind of holy innocence. Said computer scientist Valentin Turchin, a fellow dissident who emigrated to the U.S.: "There are two categories of people who have left their imprint on humanity: leaders and saints. Sakharov was in the category of saints." One mournful colleague in Moscow...
Spence's letter comes as Harvard finalizes plans for an unprecedented $2 billion University-wide capital campaign. FAS, historically the largest fundraiser of Harvard's nine faculties, is likely to receive the lion's share of the campaign's windfall...
Does this mean I have to wear a lion on my head...
...people buying water and cannedgoods like pork and beans. It's been prettysteady," said Bryan Raleigh, manager of the MarketStreet Food Lion in Wilmington, N.C., where nearbyCarolina Beach suffered $90 million in damageswhen hit by Hurricane Diana...