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...valedictorian of Winston Churchill High School, where she served as class president for three consecutive years...
...different." Still, every political blow Blair takes seems to increase his stature in President Bush's eyes. "Maybe Bush will put a bust of Blair in the Oval," jokes a second aide. It wouldn't be unprecedented. He keeps one of another wartime Prime Minister in that office: Winston Churchill. --By John F. Dickerson and Jeff...
...that struggle can cut both ways. Dyslexics are also overrepresented in the prison population. According to Frank Wood, a professor of neurology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., new research shows that children with dyslexia are more likely than nondyslexics to drop out of school, withdraw from friends and family or attempt suicide...
...DIED. WINSTON GRAHAM, 93, author of 12 novels about the Poldark clan, which--as embodied in the hit BBC adaptation--made landowner-banker feuding in 18th century Cornwall seem sexy. Graham also wrote 28 other books, including Marnie, which became a Hitchcock thriller...
Where has the fine art of the insult gone? there was a time in Europe when the cutting gibe was a respected weapon in political discourse. Lady Astor, Winston Churchill's nemesis, once said to him: "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee." Churchill didn't demand an apology or file a human-rights complaint. He just shot back: "And if I were your husband I would drink it." But these days we get the insult without the art, and so we respond with self-righteous outrage. Last week, when a German Member...