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...many quaint facts in this rambling, opinionated history of the "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S. An English journalist of hip leftist views, Hitchens was inspired by the question he asked himself one night outside a Los Angeles hotel, where Prince Philip was to bestow the Winston Churchill Award upon Ronald Reagan. Why is it, Hitchens wondered, that Englishness looms so large in the American imagination, particularly among the rich...
...room displays bronze-tone, life-size statues of 10 world leaders, including Charles de Gaulle, Konrad Adenauer, Winston Churchill and Mao Zedong. Trying to hurry history's verdict, Nixon has always had a habit of dressing the set with giants, setting the delay timer, and then jumping into the picture himself...
Most of the programs targeted for cancellation commissioned only a few officers each year. Among them is Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., where Winston Churchill delivered his historic Iron Curtain speech in 1946. Since the college had only seven cadets last year, the shutdown "didn't come as a complete surprise" to President Harvey Saunders. Still, says Saunders, "I'm sad to see the tradition...
...exporters have begun to inspire some resistance overseas. In South Korea, which is suffering from a flagging economy, the government has staged what amounts to an official boycott of many imports. Japan in recent years has substantially increased its imports of American goods, ranging from Timberland shoes to Harry Winston jewelry, but trade tension resurfaced last week. The Bush Administration voiced fears that Tokyo, after making promises this spring to help reduce the U.S. trade deficit with Japan, is dragging its feet again. Said Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher: "I hope they are just testing us to see if we have...
...eager to pay an increase," Winston said. "We see no other alternative...