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...An event for your diaries To coincide (almost) with the FT launching this newsletter, I’ll be talking to my international colleagues Martin Arnold, Claire Jones, Martin Sandbu and Colby Smith to unpick...
...The piece was artfully constructed; it began by speaking of the admiration for Gandhi expressed by one great American, Martin Luther King Jr, and ended by speaking of the admiration for him expressed by...
...It has taken Jefferson County in Alabama, for instance, decades to ensure equal employment opportunities and remedy past discrimination....
...Hemings trained in Paris, then cooked at Jefferson’s home Monticello for America’s revolutionary elite....
...Dinosaur Jr have always worked hard at sounding lazy....
...Closer to home, at Tarrytown, the British spy Major John André was caught, after he had met Benedict Arnold at West Point....
...As Thomas Jefferson wrote in another context “Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.”...
...In 1995, local philanthropist Mitchell Wolfson Jr opened The Wolfsonian, a South Beach museum devoted to 19th and 20th-century objects and design....
...When Martin Luther King Jr walked with 250,000 people to Washington in 1963, it was a march for “jobs and freedom”....
...Additional reporting by Martin Arnold and Jim Brunsden Letter in response to this article: Europe must heed the right Hamilton moment / From Federico Pastor, Treasury counsel, Madrid, Spain...
...that Jefferson, like so many of the other signers, had slaves)....
...Mapplethorpe recasts Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hypermasculine physique as a locus for homoerotic desire....
...Dallas: A thuggish Texas oil baron, the character of JR Ewing is an ideal turncoat for climate change campaigners. Sadly the actor who played JR, Larry Hagman, died in 2012....
...The latest round of investment in DAH was led by Jefferson River Capital, a family office named after the river that runs through the Montana ranch of Mr James, one of the most powerful figures in the private...
...On January 4 1899, when Frederick Law Olmsted Jr, a landscape architect like his father who designed New York’s Central Park, and nine men met in New York as founders of the American Society of Landscape...
...Jefferson, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the New York Times, includes sharp descriptions of postwar black American performers such as Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr, who prized...
...As BBC4’s kaleidoscopic Arena: The Roundhouse — The People’s Palace (Sunday 10pm) recalls, the venue was the brainchild of Arnold Wesker, who comes over as an angel of impassioned idealism....
...But Mr Ali also quotes Thomas Jefferson in a mordant warning of how any failure by the new administration will “make the wounds deeper” in this long-turbulent region....
...As Burr, Leslie Odom Jr shapes the story smoothly, and, as both Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette, Daveed Diggs rap-battles against Miranda’s Hamilton in an instant classic addition to hip-hop’s long...
...One influence on his becoming an inventor was the series of Tom Swift Jr books, which he read, as a seven-year-old, at camp. His collection is on display....
...Robert Downey Jr reportedly earned less than $1m for starring in the first Iron Man (2008) but renegotiated his deal when the movie became a knockout hit....
...In 1961 the president decided to follow in Thomas Jefferson’s gardening footsteps, commissioning Mellon to redesign the Rose Garden....
...Founded by Jerome Kohlberg Jr after he left KKR, the private equity group focuses on buying midsized companies....
...Introduction: Lost and Found Every morning, as I walk into Pixar Animation Studios— past the twenty- foot- high sculpture of Luxo Jr., our friendly desk lamp mascot, through the double doors and into a...
...Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story, by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Simon & Schuster, RRP£20 There are 619 pages in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new autobiography and it takes 590 of them before the Austrian-born...
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