Hints and tips:
...The power of the Dublin speech was a reminder, perhaps, of the truth voiced by John Grigg, who as Lord Altrincham (and therefore all the more scandalous for the popular and conservative press) had, in the...
...Much of the funding came principally from Kohn in Philadelphia and Burford, which operated at least part in the United States. Absent the US activity, there would have been no scheme.”...
...“The next 120 days are probably going to be as difficult as what we’ve seen in the last 30 years,” says Greg Armstrong, chief executive of Plains All American, one of the biggest crude oil pipeline partnerships...
...Lahiri skilfully shapes the political aspect of her story, effectively conveys the collision of two worlds, and vividly describes campus life in the United States....
...Other jazz veterans present, their gifts in varying states of preservation, included Rubén Blades, the Panamanian singer, Hugh Masekela, the South African trumpeter, and Al Jarreau, the inimitable American...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...The Afrofuturism of Sun Ra, Hendrix et al was a response to black America’s dismal history of slavery and segregation. Being enslaved was imagined as a form of alien abduction....
...Across the street are the headquarters of United Talent Agency, where clients include Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford and Gwyneth Paltrow....
...Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America....
...Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States By Andrew Coe Oxford University Press, £15.99 The story of America’s love-hate relationship with Chinese food, from the first American...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
...comic strips mix with Hollywood starlets and motorcycles in Richard Prince: Spiritual America, an exhibition of the American painter and photographer’s works....
...United States, soccer has clearly had an enormous growth spurt.”...
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
...At Baghdad’s Buratha mosque, for example, thousands gather each Friday to hear the sermons of Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, who recently accused the Al-Jazeera television network of “shooting arrows of hate at...
...Klein et al appear bizarrely calm as they anticipate the eco-horrors in store for us....
International Edition