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...December 5 is the 10th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s death. December 10 is the 75th anniversary of the UN General Assembly adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights....
...“He sparkled in company,” said John Allen, his biographer — but it was all without artifice. “Who he was publicly was exactly who he was in private.”...
...He also acted as a vital adviser to George W Bush, during the disputed 2000 presidential election....
...Allen & Overy has hired Stephen Besen as an M&A partner based in New York. He joins from Shearman & Sterling....
...The sepulchral Folger Institute in Washington DC leaves him cold but enables him to excavate the fascination with Richard III during the Californian gold rush....
...Each new pinnacle added to the old ones – Nelson’s Column, Big Ben – is the triumph of aspiration over murk and mire....
...He recalls trying to speak to George W Bush to counsel against invading Iraq....
...Still, I did not advertise this sin of omission, since I was supposed to show up in the flesh, which is what life, according to Woody Allen, is all about....
...The Plantagenet decorator-king Henry III brought in Sicilian craftsmen to make the ostensibly ur-English shrine of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey....
...Like other pro- growth autocrats, from Nebuchadnezzar to Napoléon III, China’s leaders like building....
...W. Johnson Allen Lane £25 It is easy to despair about the decline of South Africa....
...It reads like a who’s who of US politics, from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the left to John McCain and George W. Bush on the right....
...Andrew Roberts’ ‘Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West’ is published by Allen Lane, £25...
...Almost every English monarch since George III. Useful for: Impressing overseas clients with Britain’s historical magnificence....
...Almost every English monarch since George III. Useful for: Impressing overseas clients with Britain’shistorical magnificence....
...Its name lives on only via a subsidiary in the US – where George W....
...THE MANY FACES OF GOD: Science’s 400-Year Quest for Images of the Divine by Jeremy Campbell W.W....
...No sooner had he published Arden II than Arden III went into production....
...Firmin, which was established in 1677, also supplied George III, George Washington and the Duke of Wellington with their threads....
...Others fear that the Democratic party with her in the lead would move to the centre, just as public dissatisfaction with President George W....
...Speculation increased after she shared a stage with President George W. Bush and contributed money to his election campaign....
...Yours faithfully, Charles Allen – Chief Executive, ITV plc Nighat Awan OBE – Chief Executive, Shere Khan Group Trevor Beattie – Advertising Creative Director, TBWA/London Graham Benson – Chairman, Blue...
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