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...case such an elusive term that it can only cause mischief in human affairs and has a way of evaporating - or turning into something else as time passes. Toward the end of World War I, when labor unions threatened strikes in England, Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill sternly blamed "evil and subterranean influences," meaning, he said, "pacifism, defeatism and Bolshevism." Of course, the real evils of World War I, which slaughtered an entire generation of Europe's young men, were obdurate military stupidity, the effectiveness of newly industrialized war and a monstrous official indifference to the value of human life...
...added the exclamation points, but you get the idea. Yes, viewers are tuning in to Joe Millionaire, The Bachelorette and American Idol by the tens of millions. Yet, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, never have so many watched so much TV with so little good to say about...
Little by little, Dolan became involved with the business as it expanded, absorbing other services and opening new branches. He left his position as a partner at Winston Strawn in Chicago to head up the dating service, which has been featured on the Today Show, 20/20 and CNN, and has an annual revenue of over $20 million. Dolan says that now he probably spends more time playing golf than he does in the office...
...terms sounded just similar enough to be potentially confusing, I took solace in my study group. My two compatriots helped improve my understanding of the material and made me laugh. Some of the most valuable resources that Harvard offers its students are one another. Economists like Gordon C. Winston at Williams College have written about peer effects in higher education. These economists like to compare colleges to firms, with students as consumers of an education. But unlike most firms, students are also the inputs that create the education we all consume. While your New Balance running shoes are not more...
...will have to remain in Iraq for years to come. There should be no illusions about the difficulty of Mesopotamian nation building. It has been attempted on this same ground many times before, by many other superpowers, and none--none--has ever succeeded. The last to try was England. Winston Churchill, a superhawk hero of the 20th century, ran the occupation, saw the futility of it and favored retreat. "We are paying 8 millions a year," he wrote his Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, in 1922, "for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano...