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...At an early morning meeting on the second day of the alliance’s summit that year, then secretary-general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer met with US president George W Bush and his French and German counterparts Nicolas...
...Few are as critical of the Iran nuclear deal as Benjamin Netanyahu, the rightwing Israeli prime minister who has enjoyed a particularly close relationship with Mr Trump....
...But in the Big Apple, Democratic mayor Bill de Blasio — who this week launched his own presidential bid — did not mince words. “Good riddance....
...Alexis de Tocqueville, the great chronicler of the young US republic, described it as the “most formidable weapon that has ever been placed in the hands of a majority”....
...On July 11 last year, Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, flew to Moscow to meet Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin....
...Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu jumped on the theme....
...Any power determined to uproot Isis and its barbarism from the region, moreover, finds itself in de facto alignment with Iran....
...Many still blanch at the eagerness with which Tony Blair ingratiated himself with George W Bush in 2001....
...Rudy’s Barbershop, 4451 W Sunset Boulevard, CA 90027 (+1323-661 6535; www.rudysbarbershop.com)....
...Rapid de-Ba’athification is not an option....
...Benjamin Britten : A Life in the Twentieth Century, by Paul Kildea, Allen Lane, £30, 688 pages Letters from a Life : The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Volume Six, 1966-1976, edited by Philip Reed...
...case of Benjamin and Krim, take over United Artists and eventually form Orion Pictures....
...Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, by Paul Kildea, Allen Lane, RRP£30 Kildea has done everyone a service by refusing to allow moral judgments to cloud his biographical brief....
...Set beside each other, Cornelia Parker’s feathers are the ultimate lightweights of my gathering of travellers; making it to the south pole or the summit of Everest; into Benjamin Franklin’s bedroom and on...
...If sincere, this would put the Israeli premier alongside Mikhail Gorbachev and F.W. de Klerk, courageous statesmen who have recognised the world has changed and that their countries must change with it....
...The books beside the bed, les livres de chevet, are supposed to be important to the person who sleeps there, but mine aren’t....
...The flamboyant Benjamin Disraeli churned out popular novels....
...But after the winter of discontent, it would have been difficult to overcome the sense of fin de régime....
...If Alan Bennett had written a play about W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten we would probably have welcomed it and slipped easily into suspending disbelief, into relishing his version of the great men....
...Three months later, Mr Obama insisted Benjamin Netanyahu freeze all settlements activity in order to boost Arab confidence in the talks....
...Simone de Beauvoir 91. Josip Tito, president of Yugoslavia, 1953-80 92. Sarah Palin 93. Michael Manley, Jamaican PM, 1972-80 and 1989-92 94. Pope John Paul II 95. Benjamin Disraeli 96....
...Ahamed’s four central characters are Émile Moreau, governor of the Banque de France; Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England; Hjalmar Schacht, president of the German Reichsbank; and Benjamin Strong...
...Benjamin West, president of the Royal Academy, announced that the landscapes he saw in 1807 were nothing more than “crude blotches” and that “nothing could be more vicious”....
...The pièce de résistance: Gen Jones, the new national security adviser, speaks fluent French, having gone to high school in France....
...There are those in Israel who believe he could be an F.W. de Klerk, capable of bringing to an end the long struggle with the Palestinians....
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