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Hence, when it comes to getting their way and making their mark, totalitarians have a perverse advantage over even the most strong-willed democrats. At some point in their careers, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Lyndon Johnson and Margaret Thatcher all unwillingly became private citizens because their constituents decided it should be so. Ending Hitler's chancellorship required a global conflagration...
...went to fetch her father's ashes from a Red Chinese prison, she was told that his ears had been torn off. It was all she had to hear to know that the official report of suicide was a lie. The author, wife of the former ambassador to China Winston Lord, confronts 40 years of cultural distortion in the People's Republic...
...during some of the darkest days of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Franklin Roosevelt in the White House at Christmas. He helped the President light the White House tree and in a short speech noted the curious intermingling of doubt and joy enveloping the world: "Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grownups share to the full their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before...
...purpose of the war "will be to send a message, not only to Iraq, but to all the countries in the Middle East, that punishment will be inflicted upon anybody who acts independently in that area," said Winston Warfield, chair of the speakout and president of the Boston area chapter of Veterans for Peace...
WHRB will kick off the celebration of its 50 years of radio airplay tonight, remembering some of its highlights--the appearance of unconventional rock bands such as the Screaming Custard, interviews with celebrities such as Winston Churchill, and the origins of its famous music orgies...