Word: winstone
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...ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of the events, Rwandan President Paul Kagame offered to come to the aid of any country in which genocide was taking place. He has sent a small contingent to Darfur to help restore stability after clashes between the government and rebel forces. Courage, Winston Churchill once said, is the virtue that makes all other virtues possible. Hotel Rwanda reminds us of that with dramatic force and compelling poignancy. --With reporting by Kate Novack/New York
...control over spying at the CIA and other agencies. But without operational control, the director may be less useful to the President and therefore have less access to him. It will take a close friend of Bush's or someone "very aggressive" in the post to overcome that, warns Winston Wiley, a former CIA official...
...Health care in the U.S.” Thompson begins the chapters with her own words of wisdom about assessing and managing the risk, followed by relevant and insightful quotations from scientists, authors, politicians and other famous people including Albert Einstein, Maya Angelou, Mark Twain and Sir Winston Churchill...
...have appreciated for centuries: luxurious grooming products. Companies like the 200-year-old British Truefitt & Hill and the relatively new Sharps are making inroads into the $5 billion U.S. market for men's grooming products with deluxe barbershops, right, and trendy products, left. Truefitt & Hill, once a favorite of Winston Churchill's and now of Matthew Broderick's, offers a half-hour-long shave with a straight razor, nine hot towels and a sideburn trim at its new Las Vegas shop. --By Kate Betts
...Netherlands' hottest artists and designers, including Piet Hein Eek and Marcel Wanders, and the overall look is conspicuously contemporary. Arena also houses Tonight, the city's nightclub du jour, in an old chapel. tel: (31?20) 850 2420; www.hotelarena.nl A little more self-consciously arty is the Winston Hotel. Housed in converted terraces in the middle of Amsterdam's gritty red-light district, the Winston boasts an art academy, as well as several twin-bed "art rooms" designed by young, up-and-coming conceptualists. There's everything from the stark sculpture of Nicolas Touron, who has covered the walls...