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...while the ultimate victor of the diamond rush was non-Jewish, with Cecil Rhodes gaining a near-monopoly of the industry with De Beers, many other leading figures, such as Barney Barnato, Sammy Marks and Alfred...
...Moreover, there was a slight feeling in some quarters that our finds — replete with graphic evidence of rape, slaughter and mayhem — were somehow shamefully unfashionable, defying the prevailing academic...
...“Biden is an internationalist and a multilateralist — he wants to engage the world,” said Ms Slaughter....
...Brexit is shifting the tectonic plates underneath the steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone....
...Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age, by Stephen Platt, Atlantic Books, RRP£25/Alfred A Knopf, RRP$35 Stephen Platt, author of a prizewinning book on the mid-19th century...
...Ranging widely from the latest research to her own experience, Slaughter points out that the problem is not, pace Sandberg, with women, but with work....
...Recognising a precocious talent, Alfred Jackson, the husband of his Latin teacher and himself a cartoonist, asked the 14-year-old Quentin if he had any ideas....
...After a retaliatory campaign in 1898 (more slaughter than combat), Kitchener had led his punitive expedition into Omdurman riding on a white charger surrounded by kilted Highlanders....
...John Updike and Philip Roth pop their heads in once or twice to make a passing remark; Joan Didion, Alfred Kazin and Lionel Trilling make equally brief appearances to offer much-quoted aperçus....
...Treasures is a remarkable testimony to changing human attitudes to the natural world, from cruelty and slaughter to splendid scholarship....
...Alfred G. Buckham, who served as a reconnaissance photographer for the Royal Naval Air Service, knew all about the perils of flight....
...Alfred Pollard, a London insurance clerk, appears at first to be the classic Englishman with the stiff upper lip....
...Why is it worse to slaughter dolphins than to slaughter cows or pigs? (Just because dolphins are cuter?) What of Japan’s argument that culling dolphins helps preserve smaller fish?...
...Dainty Monsters included a poem dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock. The posse of gamblers in Divisadero constantly exchange quips about the worst movies ever made, or the best screen line....
...Dangerous NationAmerica’s Place in the World By Robert Kagan Alfred A....
...His slaughter and butchery are done at home. Heaven knows what changes EU entry may enforce. Every family cures hams and bacon in the chimney, lays down dripping and makes lardo....
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