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When conservative pundit and moral scold William Bennett was found, in 2003, to have lost millions of dollars gambling in Las Vegas and elsewhere, the reaction in some quarters was, Hypocrite! How could the author of The Book of Virtues be an honorary citizen of the city of vice and still speak for American values...
...courage in disowning one who sat in the presidential box during the January 2004 State of the Union message. I don't envy the decisions our President has to make, but I admire his willingness to move beyond some of the earlier errors in this whole enterprise. WILLIAM A. MCCARTNEY Delaware, Ohio...
...It’s so obvious that things are going very, very wrong,” said Lawrence Professor of Chemistry emeritus William N. Lipscomb Jr. Lipscomb won the 1976 chemistry Nobel...
...centuries before Bush ever did. Abraham Lincoln, the President whom Bush says he admires most, called the Civil War God's punishment for the sin of slavery, and the presidency an office that drove him to his knees "by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." William McKinley decided to invade the Philippines to "uplift and civilize and Christianize" its people. And Woodrow Wilson, a son and grandson of ministers, believed that God had ordained him to be President, inspiring Freud to wonder whether he had a Messiah complex...
...WILLIAM HAWKINS Medical Marketer Medtronic, a medical-device maker based in Minneapolis, Minn., saw net earnings rise 22.5%, to nearly $2 billion, in the past fiscal year, and that's great news for the company's new president and chief operating officer, William Hawkins, 50. Hawkins, an avid Duke University basketball fan, knows his competition; he has also worked for Eli Lilly, Guidant and Johnson & Johnson. The challenge for the biomedical engineer and former head of Medtronic's vascular business will be to keep the company hitting nothing but net. Next up on Hawkins' game plan: overseeing the launch...