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...Expect the unexpected," Principal Winston Davis warned the 700 students in Knoxville's Fulton High School auditorium last week. As the assembly settled into an eye-glazing film on the high school's construction, six warriors in camouflage gear suddenly mounted a platform near the stage and began firing their M-16s. The youngsters screamed and scrambled for cover. But the gunplay ended almost immediately, and Sergeant Major Bob Gregory of the Tennessee Army National Guard informed the students that the soldiers were shooting blanks. "This was just a scenario," said he. "It's not for real...
Macmillan had first been elected to the House of Commons in 1924. During World War II, Winston Churchill dispatched him to North Africa as Minister- Resident at Dwight Eisenhower's Allied headquarters. In the 1950s he held a succession of Cabinet positions, including Minister of Defense, Foreign Secretary, and, just before going to 10 Downing Street, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Iran's Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Shahansha (1968), Germany's Helmut Schmidt (1979), Spain's King Juan Carlos (1984), and Sweden's Gustav Adolf (1938), Winston Churchill...
...their contributions to civilization." Courses would include, "The Role of Imperialism in Fostering World Development," "The Drawbacks of Affirmative Action" and "'The White Man's Burden:' European Literature as a Force for World Salvation." The reading list for the concentration would include works by Kipling, Cecil Rhodes and Winston Churchill. Notably absent would be anything by Gandhi, Martin Luther King or Leopold Senghor...
...boring sometimes and we're all interesting sometimes [but] some people are more boring than others," said Mark Leary, assistant psychology professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., co-author of the report with three students...