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...Alfred Walker sings potently as the flighty, morally challenged monarch, though a metallic edge sometimes detracts from his imposing bass....
...It is being built on the site of the old central police station and the recently demolished Reform synagogue, close to Alfred Waterhouse’s spectacular Victorian gothic town hall....
...Her father Alfred was a US foreign service officer specialising in eastern Europe. As well as fostering an interest in economics, the cold war period generated a certain patriotism in Brainard....
...The Natural History Museum, housed in a magnificent 1873-81 Alfred Waterhouse building, is split into four zones....
...Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel, by Stephen Budiansky, W.W....
...The granddaddy of all papers on this topic is W. Brian Arthur’s “Increasing Returns and the New World of Business,” published a quarter century ago....
...Selena Gomez presented, Jennifer Lopez performed and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris sent video messages....
...Long before Dadaists gleefully provoked the bourgeoisie and Surrealists glorified the absurd, irrational and scatological, Alfred Jarry scandalised Paris with Ubu Roi — a play so rude and anarchic that rioting...
...of the Hieroglyphic Stairway at Palenque was made possible by the museum’s fortuitous collection of hundreds of plastercasts of Maya inscriptions taken 130 years ago by the British explorer and diplomat Alfred...
...(FT, NYT) A lost Maya kingdom found Rancher Jacinto Gómez knew there were impressive ruins on his land in a corner of the Mexican state of Chiapas....
...A cast of cameos punctuate the film, a highlight being Alfred Molina as a waiter presenting a menu of different forms of torture....
...Marjorie Trusted Amberley, W Sussex, UK...
...Ogden Nash would surely have admired his fellow American T S Eliot (no mean writer of humorous verse either) for the opening lines of “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”: “Let us go then, you and IWhen...
...“What is popular going into the midterms on both sides of the aisle is China bashing,” says Dennis Wilder, a former top China adviser to George W Bush....
...The award, which is officially known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel, was awarded to Prof Thaler for his “contribution to behavioural economics”, the prize committee said....
...At the Georgia Republican party’s modest headquarters in northern Atlanta, a framed portrait of George W Bush greets visitors....
...In the Dreyfus affair of the 1890s, Maurras saw the Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus sabotaging the “real France”....
...Mr Scharf, who joined in 2012 from JP Morgan Chase, will be replaced by Alfred Kelly Jr, former longtime executive at of rival card company American Express....
...This is because they used to feed on our dead, excuse enough to detest them,” wrote Rifleman Alfred Read, 1/18th London Regiment....
...Britain could have projected a more modern image by choosing film-maker Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), the pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), or the sculptor, and arguably Britain...
...According to W.B. Yeats, it was in fact Wilde’s fiercely nationalistic mother who told her son she would never speak to him again if he fled (and thereby evaded martyrdom in an English jail)....
...His book ‘East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity’ is published by Alfred Knopf (US) Illustration by Luke Waller...
...I have seen Ubu Roi, Alfred Jarry’s 1896 proto-absurdist play about a tyrant, used to deconstruct everyone from Idi Amin to Ceausescu, with my favourite production taking on Haiti’s 20th-century dictator...
...If Cuba’s regime falls, says Gomez, “America is going to hope for the military to take over. Why? Security!...
...Larry Olmsted was a guest of Sun Valley; see sunvalley.com= Photographs: Keystone/Getty Images; Alfred Eisenstaedt...
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