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...Kinsley names Winston Churchill as a leader who was great because he was astringent. But Churchill never won an election through astringency. In the 1930s, when he was warning of the Nazi peril, he was almost uniformly rejected as a crank. He was not elected Prime Minister in 1940; rather, he was installed by a Parliament that deferred elections until after the war. When one was finally held, in 1945, Churchill was voted out of office. We need not only great leaders but also a public great enough to accept their leadership. M.L. Cross, Stephenville, Texas...
...plane tickets was seriously injured in a car accident, leading to the loss of the group’s travel funding. An organization known as “Americans in Italy for Obama” had promised to provide the group with plane tickets to Raleigh, NC, Winston-Salem, NC, Atlanta, Ga., and Savannah, Ga. The Democrats received word on Saturday that David Gall, the member of the Italian group who was responsible for purchasing the campaigners’ plane tickets, had been injured in a car accident and would be unable to organize the trip. Dems president Jarret...
...problem for Harvard as both boats finished 12th in their division.“We had some very sporadic races. We either did pretty well or very badly,” sophomore crew Quincy Bock said. Skipper Garrity helmed the A-division boat, assisted by crews Bock and junior Winston Yan. Sophomore skipper John Stokes and junior crew Michelle Konstadt competed in the B division.The A boat’s six top-ten finishes were offset by two 17th-place races, while the B boat was unable to recover from a disqualification in the fifth race of the regatta.Roger Williams...
...Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others." Winston Churchill's aphorism resonates for his 21st century successor, Gordon Brown. Just weeks ago the British Prime Minister looked fist-clenchingly impotent as insurrection bubbled in Labour's ranks and his Conservative opponents thumbed their noses from the safe distance of a 20-point poll advantage. Then came convulsions in the global economy. The scramble to avert meltdown drove Labour rebels into retreat, halved the Tory lead and granted Brown more than just a reprieve from domestic woes. As Congress bickered over the U.S. bailout and European leaders...
...Meeting Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill said, was like opening your first bottle of champagne. "Knowing him was like drinking it." Temperament is a special subcommittee of character: it is less intellect than instinct, more about music than lyrics - the quality voters sense when they watch a candidate improvise or when he thinks no one is looking. It's why newspapers run profiles quoting kindergarten teachers; temperament is formed early. "You can call it balance. You can call it a sense of proportion. You can call it maturity, good judgment," says historian David McCullough. "One of the clearest lessons of history...