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...Cornell Belcher, a Democratic strategist and former Barack Obama campaign adviser, said criticism of Biden’s age was “in many ways so insulting” because he had “accomplished more than Lyndon Johnson, has...
...Following a brief first marriage, she wedded William McCormick Blair Jr, the former US ambassador to Denmark, in 1961....
...Late in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr took a breather....
...Bieber brings to mind another of St Augustine’s sayings — not to trust a “sweet and artificial voice” in music....
...Busts of civil rights activists Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks and labour leader César Chavez sit near his political hero Bobby Kennedy, and a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt has replaced Mr Trump’s choice...
...“China’s economy seems to be firing consistently on all cylinders,” said Eswar Prasad, a China finance expert at Cornell University, who added that it was “leaving other major economies in the dust”....
...At the Linden Grill, a downtown South Bend eatery that features an excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have A Dream” speech on its front window, the reception from the largely African-American clientele...
...Then it’s on to St Augustine church in the Tremé area. They have these incredible Christmas concerts – jazz, gospel, soul music and a holiday feel all happening together....
...Accra Restaurant, 2065 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard, 10027 (+1212-932 7739), from $15. Augustine, 5 Beekman Street, 10038 (+1212-375 0010; augustineny.com)....
...“There’s something refreshingly ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ about Lina and her cohort,” says Robert Hockett, a Cornell professor and mentor who’s been impressed with Khan’s undogmatic approach to policy ideas...
...In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize: “Here is an apostle of peace and non-violence, cruelly separated from his own people while they are oppressed by a vicious war which...
...Name: Amy Wrzesniewski, professor of organisational behaviour at Yale School of Management Nominates: JR Keller at Cornell Professor Keller, says Prof Wrzesniewski, takes a “helpful HR approach to understanding...
...Greer is sharp in her updates and analogues: the Act Two picnic becomes a Fourth of July barbecue, the Act Three party a retro disco night with neighbour Cornell (alias Simeonov-Pishchik) kitted out like...
...Saar trained as a printmaker, but shifted gears after seeing a Joseph Cornell retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum....
...On one level, Robin’s is simply a more strident version of William F Buckley, Jr’s sympathetic definition: “A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop.”...
...In 1919, the young EB White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr....
...The findings chime with the views of Franklin Becker, director of Cornell University’s international workplace studies programme, who says office design reveals the true values that lie behind organisational...
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