Word: winstone
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...from the mishandling of pre-9/11 intelligence to the mistakes made in Iraq. Officials made contact with a valuable source, but then they just let him rot in jail with the crucial information he has. Such missteps have cost billions of taxpayers' dollars and thousands of soldiers' lives. Winston Samson Virginia Beach, Virginia...
...says Hughes was ignorant of Fijian politics, a charge he lays at many doors. Foreign politicians like Downer and his New Zealand counterpart Winston Peters are getting bad advice from their Fiji missions, he says, and don't know what's happening on the ground. "The diplomats got along better with Qarase's people," he says. "They want business as usual-even if it's going downhill." Last month Fiji's Reserve Bank predicted the economy would shrink 2-4% this year; before the coup, it had forecast growth of 2%. Speaking the day before his government's first Budget...
...London fish restaurant has seen some famous faces over the years, including Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill and Marilyn Monroe. James Bond creator Ian Fleming discovered the delights of a martini, shaken not stirred, at the bar, while the joint was mentioned in the Hollywood classic The Great Escape as a dream destination after the war. It had lost its luster by the time it was acquired in 2005 by Caprice Holdings?owners of Le Caprice, the Ivy and J. Sheekey?and then closed for a multimillion-dollar renovation...
...whom to�arrest and whom to send back into battle should be cast in different terms. Which should we fear more--terrorists bent on destroying a nation and an idea or domestic addicts who owe their allegiance to a drug? We might do well to take the view of Winston Churchill, who said after Adolf Hitler invaded the U.S.S.R., "If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." The terrorists are our Hitler, and the drug dealers are our U.S.S.R. We must assign a higher priority to our external...
...WINSTON SAMSON Virginia Beach...