Word: winstone
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...Forum: Joshua I. Weiner ‘03, Harvard Political Review Editor: Jason T. Sauer ‘02, Harvard Political Union: Previn Warren ‘04, Internships: Adam J. Wienner ‘04, Projects: Heather A. Woodruff ‘03, Study Groups: Randall J. Winston...
...Winston Groom Author, Forrest Gump To try to tell someone who wasn't there about your experiences is like trying to describe the color blue to a blind man. I served as a lieutenant with the 4th Infantry Division. I was a psychological-warfare officer. I didn't say anything about my war experiences for years. I remember going out to the scene of a big fire fight?40 to 50 bodies, horribly mutilated, that had been dragged into this field. My job was to take pictures of them. The pictures would be put on leaflets that would be dropped...
...knees to invite Jesus Christ into his life. Then he rose and poured out all the alcohol in the house. Her family had never been very religious before. But Roni embraced her dad's conversion as her own. At age 17, she entered the tiny Piedmont Baptist College in Winston-Salem, N.C., where she vowed to date only boys who wanted, like her, to be missionaries. As she wrote in the essay: "Seriously! Whenever I was asked out, even for ice cream, my first question would be, 'What do you want to do when you graduate...
...Winston Churchill, as we know, stayed up late in order to drink brandy and smoke cigars. In the morning when he came to, he would breakfast on a whisky and water, and then work in bed for hours. He was perhaps the exception proving Henry Luce's rule that no man who stays in bed after nine a.m. will ever amount to anything...
...Lacked leaders? Patton's leaders in 1943 were Franklin D. Roosevelt and General George C. Marshall. Winston Churchill was also on the team. Patton was a fierce field commander and an almost mystical student of military history, but headlong narcissism impaired his sight from time to time. He had trouble judging those in power over him. We all do. Either we are infuriated by people who outrank us, or we overvalue those in whom we have invested hopes. Trusting leaders involves risks, acts of faith...