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...with the power to pull history around a corner; to end a long, cold, fearsome war; to change the conversation of our politics and culture as much by the sheer force of his personality as by the power of his ideas, Ronald Reagan was an unaccountably modest and good-natured soul. He seemed untouched by the arrogance and self-regard common to actors and politicians, to the point that when a brash reporter asked him on the eve of his election what he thought the American people saw in him, Reagan said, "Would you laugh if I told you that...
Ramos’ arrest in January was a prime example of coordination and cooperation between HUPD and CPD, Catalano said, and it was successful because of the sheer volume of officers on the streets as well as the victim’s fast thinking...
...tried to make Newsweek a more substantive magazine,” Whitaker says. “There is nothing more powerful than sheer reporting, than breaking stories...
Except when an eating disorder has hijacked the process. Anorexics and bulimics are more successful at losing weight than people on diets because they have managed to throw this basic drive to eat into reverse. Through sheer force of will, anorexics convince their body that it doesn't need food. "Anorexics are able to do things that are clearly beyond what a normal person is capable of doing," says Kaplan. "Theirs is extreme behavior often driven by an inappropriate and distorted body image...
Everything about D-day was dramatic--the overarching strategy, the vast mobilization, the sheer number of troops. But it's the daring boldness and intrepid courage of the men that stand out. One can read biographies of Dwight Eisenhower or watch film footage shot by John Ford, but the only way to understand D-day, the largest invasion force ever assembled, is as a battle at its smallest: that is, one soldier and one reminiscence at a time...