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...kingdom collapsed after 12 years in a war that remains the most atrocious, the most brutal and the deadliest in history. But which, by the same token, allowed several large figures to emerge. Their names have become legendary: Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Montgomery, Zhukov, Patton...
Just last week Republican leaders in Congress, acknowledging the changes sweeping Main Street and Wall Street, proposed a way to end Depression-era barriers that formally separate banks, investment firms and insurers. Already, though, hard chargers like McColl are overrunning the crumbling regulatory barricades. "Hugh McColl is the General Patton of the consolidation process," says Michael Ancell, a banking analyst with the Edward Jones investment firm...
...Science Alliance is just a way to make a connection," says Elizabeth W. Patton '00, who participated in the program last year...
...girls who participate in Science Alliance become part of WISHR," Patton says...
...feet and feeds the fantasy. Watch him roar past you on the road, and see the set of his jaw and the squint of his eye. This is not some corporate paper pusher at the wheel; this is no sensitive dad who does the laundry. This is Patton leading the Third Army. This is Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier. Disrupt his fantasy at your peril. "There is a real illusion of anonymity combined with potency because you have a machine you can command," says Jack Levin, a sociologist at Northeastern University's Program for the Study of Violence...