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...Former president Bill Clinton and actor Morgan Freeman pitched the US; supermodel Elle Macpherson championed Australia’s efforts. Then there was Qatar....
...For Freeman and the Braves, it cemented the franchise’s first championship since 1995....
...Heath Freeman, one of Smith’s protégés, runs Alden’s day-to-day operations. Bloomberg’s Joe Nocera revealed that Freeman “is a character straight out of the movie Wall Street”. What does he mean?...
...His role in Captain America was fleeting, but it is still the big time. Does he notice the power of big Hollywood budgets? “No, you don’t,” he says....
...Natural pearls were so valuable that “it wasn’t uncommon for a captain to be murdered” for one and be thrown overboard by the greedy crew, says Paspaley’s granddaughter, Christine Salter....
...Names are written in chalk besides designations such as “cleanliness captain” or “back line captain”. On the main board is a list of rules: “No stealing. No fighting in class. No sleeping in class....
...But the trawler built by local yard Parkol was heading north to Shetland: there is now little demand for large craft in the birthplace of Captain James Cook....
...Surfing, a heavyweight coffee-table book by cultural anthropologist and West Coast historian Jim Heimann, charts the sport’s ascent in a rich visual anthology that kicks off in 1778, when Captain James Cook...
...the graphics and sound of these new headsets are better, they still can’t trick our sense of taste and touch or give us the freedom of movement that would bring our virtual experience closer to that of Captain...
...He is a Freeman of the City of Nottingham and an honorary life vice-president of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club....
...A journalist, Frank Power (real name Arthur Vectis Freeman) produced a coffin containing the body of a field marshal which, he said, had washed up on the coast of Norway....
...The 13-Storey Treehouse, by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, Macmillan, RRP£5.99 Looking for the next Wimpy Kid, Captain Underpants or Tom Gates? Look no further....
...Gollum’s only scene in The Hobbit was shot on Martin Freeman’s first day on set as Bilbo Baggins....
...Lobbying for England are David Cameron, the prime minister, Prince William and David Beckham, the former England captain....
...The writer is a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. His latest book, The Origins of Political Order, will be published in the spring....
...Then, at the rugby final, when Mandela donned that ultimate Afrikaner symbol, the Springbok jersey, and shook hands with the team’s Afrikaner captain, Francois Pienaar, while the Afrikaner crowd chanted...
...Everybody speaks with a South African accent, including Matt Damon (also wearing a false nose) as true-life national rugby captain François Pienaar....
...In 1996 Morgan Freeman played the big screen’s first black president in Deep Impact....
...“Mr Freeman,” Carlin said. “This is your lucky day. I’ve got a movie for you.” Clint Eastwood is now about to shoot it and Freeman has agreed to play Mandela....
...In 1625, he sent a letter to the Secretary to the Navy in the name of his greatest patron, the Duke of Buckingham, exhorting all sea captains and ambassadors to furnish the Duke with “all manner of natural...
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