Word: winstone
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...vision would be to have less defined distinctions between general education and special education,” Markay L. Winston, director of the Department of Student Services for the Cincinnati Public Schools, said. “We can educate all of our children without labels...
Harvard’s budding “rhetorical Doctor Frankensteins” learned the tricks of the trade Friday from the first woman chief of the White House speechwriting office. Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow Chriss A. Winston, President George H. W. Bush’s onetime head speechwriter, took a few dozen undergraduates on a two-hour tutorial about how to “take a colorless, passionless, humorless lump of words and somehow mold that into a speech that has life and lift.” Having a clear core message—“preferably...
...polio that crippled him in 1921. He developed the ability to make people forget his leg braces and feel at ease in his presence. Those who met him when he was President, or even saw his million-dollar smile at a distance or in a newsreel, felt heartened. Winston Churchill said being with him was like "opening a bottle of champagne." Good vibes are not in themselves solutions to problems. But at the nadir of the Depression and in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt conveyed the sense that solutions would be found...
...arrest and whom to send back into battle should be cast in different terms. Whom should we fear more: the terrorists bent on destroying a nation and an idea, or domestic addicts who owe their allegiance to a drug? We might do well to take the view of Winston Churchill, who said after Hitler invaded the U.S.S.R., "If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." The terrorists are our Hitler, and the drug dealers are our U.S.S.R. We must assign a higher priority to our external enemies even...
...from the mishandling of pre-9/11 intelligence to the mistakes made in Iraq. Officials made contact with a valuable source, but then they just let him rot in jail with the crucial information he has. Such missteps have cost billions of taxpayers' dollars and thousands of soldiers' lives. Winston Samson Virginia Beach, Virginia...