Word: wilsonism
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...same faith that deflected [Woodrow] Wilson from entering hostilities in the Middle East spurred Bush to decide in favor of the war,” Oren writes. While Wilson’s deep-felt Christianity caused him to adopt a pacifistic attitude, President Bush, partly inspired by the attacks on the World Trade Center, has followed what Oren sees as a “crusader” ideology...
...Meanwhile, more Virgina Tech students were coming forward with reminiscences about the strange, painfully shy classmate that some of them had crossed paths with, though none of them ever got to know. Victoria Wilson, a senior from Virginia, told TIME.com about an awkward experience with Cho on the first day of a literature class last year, after her professor paired up students and asked them to question one another about their hometowns, interests and goals, then report back to the class about the other's replies...
...wouldn't say a word," Wilson recalls. "He just looked at me with his mouth open slightly. His lips were trembling a little, so I thought he was just shy and nervous. So I asked, 'Are you from northern Virginia?' and he nodded his head a little. After I tried getting him to talk for a few minutes, I gave...
...that point, Wilson says, she suggested that he simply write down information about himself, but that failed to draw a response as well. "So we just sat in silence together," she says, "until the professor told us to go around the room and talk about our partner. When the professor got to me, I just shook my head and gave him a look that said, 'Please just skip us.'" The professor, says Wilson, got the point...
...least two years to a drug sentence if the violation occurred within a 1,000-foot radius of a school property. Ten of Harvard’s houses count as within such an area, as does most of the City of Boston. Other examples are even starker. Genarlow Wilson, for instance, is serving 10 years for what all parties agree was consensual oral sex because under Georgia law oral sex with a minor counts as child molestation. Jose E. Lopez of North Carolina received a 15-year sentence for unknowingly allowing an acquaintance to use a hotel room rented...