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...Douglas is a complex figure: a disabled, Shakespeare-loving drag-queen vigilante and a survivor of childhood abuse who was imprisoned by his sadistic father....
...One of the first political events I attended as a young enthusiast featured veteran Douglas Hurd....
...To enliven the familiar footage, director Barney Douglas has some tricks up his sleeve....
...“It was not a Lincoln-Douglas debate, that is for sure,” Mr Romney added, referring to a series of 19th-century debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Others were more direct....
...A parallel logic applies to Apollo 11, Todd Douglas Miller’s masterly documentary about the 1969 mission....
...Douglas Hurd, then home secretary, said: “This is a direction in which the BBC should move.” The licence fee survived....
...Bill Gore was greatly influenced by human relations school theorists Douglas (Theory X, Theory Y) McGregor and Abraham (“hierarchy of needs”) Maslow, and emphasised the importance of purpose....
...Best Actor went to Willem Dafoe, who by playing Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate follows in the footsteps of Kirk Douglas, Tim Roth and Benedict Cumberbatch (yes, really)....
...Notable members Douglas Fairbanks (early Hollywood star), John Jacob Astor (scion of the famous business dynasty), JP Morgan (financier), Franklin D Roosevelt (US president) Gender policy Men only....
...Half a century later, President-elect Abraham Lincoln, fearful of assassination by Confederates, entered the capital in disguise, accompanied by two bodyguards....
...“Historical memorabilia related to General Douglas MacArthur were used by the participants in sexual acts,” the indictment says....
Paul Rudd turns out to be perfectly suited to the role of insect-sized superhero in this minor Marvel
...Well, yes, a re-run of Nicias vs Alcibiades arguing the wisdom of an Athenian expedition to Syracuse is probably not in the offing; nor Lincoln-Douglas on slavery and the Union for that matter....
...Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas famously held three-hour debates on the eve of the US civil war....
...Four years ago, Barack Obama brought his family to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the eve of his inauguration to pay his respects and seek inspiration from his political idol, Abraham Lincoln....
...Steven Abrahams, a Deutsche Bank analyst, said: “The experience of the last few years suggests that lower mortgage rates might be able to help to some small degree, but the problem in the housing market...
...Mr Jenkins, now a partner at Brazilian bank BTG Pactual, and Mr Abrahams, still a senior executive at Barclays in London, each declined to comment....
...Mr Gingrich, who, like the blind squirrel finding nuts, sometimes gets some things right, wants to debate Mr Obama seven times in the campaign proper, like Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas did in 1858...
...“It’s quite helpful when it comes to winning by-elections if senior members of the cabinet don’t discuss actively how to help other parties win,” said Douglas Carswell, Tory MP for Harwich....
...He was named after one (Theodore Roosevelt), born in a city named after another (Abraham Lincoln) and came into the world on the 44th birthday of a future third (Harry Truman)....
...There has been a complete turnround with a lot of energy and drive,” says Dr Douglas Ross, chief executive of St Mary’s Hospital in Pinetown....
...“The problems with Valletta are historic,” says Douglas Salt, director of estate agency Frank Salt....
...Not since Abraham Lincoln has anyone moved so rapidly from a state assembly – in both cases Illinois – to the White House....
...The 1858 format, by which Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were given an hour to make their points with half an hour for the rebuttal – at seven separate debates throughout Illinois – is unlikely to be...
...Douglas Hogg, the Conservative MP, has come in for a fair amount of flak over allegations that he used public money to maintain his Brideshead Revisited lifestyle, charging for items including a housekeeper...
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