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...He’s accompanied by a military minder, pugnacious Corporal Qhudur, and their argumentative relationship forms the narrative’s spine....
...The bombshell moment came in a civil case brought by Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most decorated living soldier, a giant former Special Air Services corporal often pictured meeting the late Queen Elizabeth...
...(For more on Labour’s weaknesses, my colleague Robert Shrimsley analyses the party’s “clarity of signal” in his latest column.)...
...He spoke in an Amazon documentary and to a YouTuber called Doctor Mike about how his parents, who believed in corporal punishment, hit him and put pressure on him to succeed....
...We don’t learn much else about Sister Rose except that she was both a “living saint” and an alcoholic with a flair for corporal punishment....
...In Nadia Fall’s production the mood is punishing, corporal and capital — spare the noose and ruin the convict — and the gore is very graphic....
...Courtenay said, in an interview following the film’s release, that it addressed the theme of what happens when you reflect on the “road not taken”, after the Robert Frost poem....
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...Robert Southey, the poet laureate, called it perhaps “the greatest deliverance that civilised society has experienced since the defeat of the Moors by Charles Martel”, a French battle in 732 that was commonly...
...Towering, or rather glowering, over them all is the thuggish Scot Lance Corporal Swann, “a man thrillingly at war with himself”, Caliban to Brinkhurst’s ineffectual Prospero....
...The famous poets and autobiographers of the first world war – Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen – were all officers....
...An avalanche of testimonials followed, several – including those by Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon and Vera Brittain, as well as Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1929) – having stayed in print ever...
...A second Sun story about Corporal Bryan Budd, who died in Afghanistan in 2006, followed an investigation of whether he had been killed by friendly fire....
...Giscard d’Estaing, against the advice of his father who did not want him to interrupt his education, joined the French First Army, becoming a corporal in a tank unit fighting the Germans in the winter of...
...Robert Owen was an exceptional man of his time....
...But this week Robert Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, suggested that the precious metal might be ready for a comeback....
...The series bases itself around three main “real” characters – Corporal Eugene Sledge and Private Robert Leckie (played by James Badge Dale), both of whom wrote memoirs, and John Basilone, who won a Medal...
...Corporal Robert Leavitt, of the US army’s 24th Infantry Division, traipses wearily through steaming paddy fields in South Korea....
...Their story is interspersed with scenes from the final hours of Corporal Robert Leavitt, a US soldier in the Korean war, killed by his own side during the No Gun Ri massacre....
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...But the corporal was killed on the battlefield on April 22 2004....
...Gareth Evans is president and Robert Malley Middle East programme director of the International Crisis Group...
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