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...Barkley has emerged as the most entertaining talking head in sports broadcasting, displaying not just a distilled knowledge of the game but great television instincts too. Recognizing that TV abhors a vacuum, he keeps his mouth running constantly. What comes out is a mix of Yogi Berra neologisms and Winston Churchill drollery that has transformed the sports- highlights show into something accessible to both diehard hoop fans and the jock laity...
...most articulate among us have been rendered speechless. Three days after the attack, this man of few words picked up a bullhorn rather than a mike to reach the men of action at ground zero. A few days later, he was criticized for sounding like Dirty Harry channeling Winston Churchill--but his vow to take bin Laden "dead or alive" had an appealing clarity. And last week an impromptu Bush put the war in perspective after introducing the Nigerian President in the Rose Garden. Squinting into the sun, which eliminates any temptation to smirk or bite his lip, Bush promised...
...Americans, I hope, are ready to heed the words of Winston Churchill: "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." To accomplish this victory, freedom-loving people throughout the world will have to be willing to sacrifice comfort, finances, superfluous liberties and perhaps even their lives. We must learn to be patient instead of arrogantly demanding, forgiving instead of litigious, and cooperative instead of contentious and divisive. It is the hour of course corrections, balance, discernment and wisdom. May we rise...
...Hitler invaded hell," Winston Churchill proclaimed during World War II, "I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil." Replace Hitler with Osama bin Laden and you have the sense of the current moment. The order of world devilry changes?and with it the alliances between good and evil, black and white, which make up the gray world in which we actually live...
...quotation is, of course, from Rudyard Kipling, the poet of patriotism, of purpose, of great dignity at a time of loss. Both Kipling and Winston Churchill were audible in the extraordinary speech that President Bush gave last week. When Kipling wrote those words, 100 years ago, the British Empire had been humbled in South Africa by a small group of Boer fighters who hated the overweening presence of Queen Victoria's realm. They were scruffy, hairy faced, profoundly religious in their battle against Anglo-Saxon materialism and extremely hard to find and destroy. It took no less than...