Word: winstone
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...Insult to Churchill? Andrew Sullivan's attempt to draw parallels between Winston Churchill and Bush in his essay "If It Could Happen to Churchill ..." was unconvincing [March 8]. Churchill's war against Hitler was necessary. Bush's war against Saddam Hussein was not. Churchill knew what Hitler was doing. Bush relied on faulty intelligence about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. After the war, Britons may have wanted a different political party to lead them during peace. Postwar America's decision about who should be President is still up in the air. Only the elections will tell. Let's wait...
...difference between victory and defeat" carries things way too far. It was the British navy and air force that kept the Nazis from invading Britain. But final victory required having Russia and the U.S. on Britain's side. So whether the British Prime Minister had been Neville Chamberlain or Winston Churchill or Clement Attlee, there would not have been a British defeat at the hands of the Nazis. Wolfgang J. Remark Markgroeningen, Germany...
...MARY WINSTON Prime Publisher...
After spending nearly 15 years in the drug and auto-parts industries, Winston, 42, just landed her first CFO job--in kids' books. She takes over the finances of Scholastic, the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's titles (2003 sales: nearly $2 billion; Harry Potter had something to do with that). "No question, this industry is totally different," Winston says. "But at the high levels of finance, the fundamentals are the same...
...arrive at the unsettling reality that we, at ages 18-22, are not as liberal as we should be. And that is not according to my very liberal judgment, but according to Winston Churchill, who once famously declared, “If you are not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you are not conservative at 40, you have no brain.” Heartless at 20, I can only hope that we are all brainless...