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...Winston, a junior at the University of Lowell, defended the tuition hike...
During the three years that China's door was opened widest to the world, American Ambassador Winston Lord and his wife turned their embassy residence into an exciting salon for Chinese intellectuals. To the delight of those artists and academics who were regulars, these gatherings offered American films, disco lessons and a rare place to talk freely to one another -- and to their effervescent hostess, Shanghai-born novelist Bette Bao Lord. Well before the advent of the democracy movement in Beijing, she began recording their uncensored life stories. Back in the U.S. after the crackdown, she spliced them together with...
...will ever say of George Bush what someone once said of Winston Churchill, that "he mobilized the English language and sent it into battle." But Bush can surprise, especially when he remembers that nothing makes Americans feel better than some good old-fashioned Democratic sweet talk. Last year it was a kinder, gentler Inaugural, last week a State of the Union address that could have been delivered by Lyndon Johnson...
...negativism (he also crafted lines for Spiro Agnew) about Mikhail Gorbachev's intentions; 2) Safire's forcefulness of expression and clarity of opinion, for he is not a columnist who seeks safety in mainstream musings; and 3) the wordplay that is Safire's trademark -- in this case, revamping Winston Churchill's pledge not to dismember the British empire...
...Winston Churchill once observed that dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals. Mary Kalish tends to agree. "A pig is more like having another family member than a pet," she says. Indeed, the historic relationship of man and pig, dating back nearly 2 million years, is complex. Such phrases as pig out, pigheaded and hog fat suggest distaste for an ungainly critter that spends most of its time wallowing in muck. (Pigs have few sweat glands and need mud -- or preferably, clean water -- to protect themselves from heat stroke.) But China...