We all need modern Churchills to lead us from the clinging, flabby, consensual thinking of the late twentieth century and to bind our nations with a single-minded effort to wage a difficult war.

Many women in modern urban China are well-educated, confident, assertive, career-minded, and well-paid.

" When You Are Old" is an oft- guoted lyric Yeats wrote for his first girlfriend Maud Gonne, a noble- minded fighter for the cause of national liberation in modern Ireland.