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<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img class="caption" src="images/stories/diana-west_avatar.jpg" border="0" alt="Diana West" title="Diana West" hspace="7" align="left" />Even after all these years, journalist-socialite Sally Quinn still embodies a Washington way of thinking – a heart-of-Georgetown, A-list set of salon-tested assumptions “everyone” knows that provides attitudes for any occasion.</p>
<p style="background-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Take the surreal state of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. One day, William G. “Jerry” Boykin, a highly decorated retired Army general and ordained minister, and a founding member and leader of Delta Force, was scheduled to speak at a West Point prayer breakfast. The next day, following a campaign to stop Boykin’s appearance by what the New York Times describes as “liberal veterans’ groups, civil liberties advocates and Muslim organizations,” Boykin was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">not</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>scheduled to speak at West Point. “In fulfilling its commitment to the community,” West Point announced, “the U.S. Military Academy will feature another speaker for the event.”</p>
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