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...million men under arms, but its equipment is obsolete. With an annual defense budget of just over $6 billion, the military modernization will be a long time coming. China's permanent seat in the U.N. Security Council gives it little more than disruptive potential. "Geostrategically," says Winston Lord, a former U.S. ambassador to Beijing, "China needs us more than we need them...
...other hand, there is a certain value to attaching words to the men and women who spoke them. Can you imagine learning that Daniel Webster or Winston Churchill had some 24-year-old Ivy. League weenie on the staff churning out lines like, "Liberty and union, one and inseparable, now and forever!" and "We have nothing to offer except blood, sweat and tears...
Wong says she's been influenced by a blend of cultures. Born in Queens, she grew up in Winston-Salem, NC, as one of the few Asian-Americans in a large public high school. Harvard was an exciting new world, she says...
...former British Prime Minister apparently intends to apply that philosophy to the writing of her memoirs. Thatcher is talking about dividing her life story into three or four volumes, more than potential U.S. publishers hope to see -- or sell. Perhaps the Iron Lady wishes to continue emulating her idol Winston Churchill, who wrote more than two dozen books during his lifetime...
...There may be some similarity with the emergence of the U.S. at the end of World War II," suggests foreign affairs scholar Kenneth Thompson. But again there were other major figures shaping events: the Kremlin's Joseph Stalin, a menacing but victorious war leader; and Britain's Winston Churchill, the man of the half-century...