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...compelling indictment is not of China but of the U.S. Lax security at national weapons labs virtually invited Beijing to pick their pockets. For years officials ignored complaints that the labs were wide open, and no Administration bothered to bolster their feeble protective measures. "On the security breaches," says Winston Lord, former U.S. ambassador to China, "I say, Shame...
...race day in Bristol, 120,000 fans walk into the stadium wearing roughly half a million racing-related logos. The Winston people are giving away cigarettes. The cars are burning fossil fuel. The noise is obscene. There's a Remington firearms car, a Winston No Bull car, a Skoal car. The smells of raw horsepower, burned rubber and expectorated snuff are cooked by a wicked...
...days at the track would be followed by even faster nights ends up a wreck too. There's a traveling ministry on the NASCAR circuit, and drivers and their families attend Sunday services in a makeshift chapel near the pits. Gordon and his wife Brooke, a former Miss Winston, are often the first two people at Saturday-night Bible study. On race day she'll give him a verse from Scripture, and he'll tape it to his steering wheel...
...WINSTON CHURCHILL It is one of the 20th century's ironies that the most poignant tribute to Winston Churchill came from one of the most repugnant tyrants of our time. Toasting the British leader at Yalta in February 1945, Joseph Stalin said, "I can think of no other instance in history where the future of the world depended on the courage of one man." Without that one man, whose abhorrence of tyranny was matched by his contempt for its appeasers, the second half of the century would have become a Nazi-dominated nightmare. That the world witnessed instead the triumph...
...losers of the week at Harvard and beyond. Class DayThough we love the venerable IOP director, we would have liked a new face. Maybe some radio guys who own a gas station. Eggs Harvard Medical School experts conclude eating one egg a day isn't bad for you. Winston, bring on the omelets. Radcliffe Finally sheds anachronistic "college" label, but without bothering to decide the fate of undergraduate programs. #99 In a classy finale to an unparalleled career, the Great One skates his last shift. Thanks for the memories, Wayne. Former Sen. David Pryor (D-Ark.) IOP fellow leaves comfortable...