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...Fellow former health secretary Matt Hancock will follow later in the week US: funeral service in Plains, Georgia, of Rosalynn Carter, former first lady to president Jimmy Carter Thursday Bhutan: parliamentary...
...A significant factor in James’s off-court success has been his childhood friend and business partner Maverick Carter, who handles much of the executive functions at SpringHill and co-invests with James in...
...Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the committee, pointed to Mr Horowitz’s finding that there was no evidence of improper motive in the opening of the historic probe, nor in any of the investigative...
...There are usually a few Democrats who switch to join Republicans on key votes, often including Joe Manchin of West Virginia and California’s Dianne Feinstein....
...He avoids folk tales but does include “The Courtship of Mr Lyon”, one of Angela Carter’s gothic-surreal masterpieces from her fairy tale-inspired The Bloody Chamber (1979)....
...Michele Swers, a Georgetown University politics professor, said the outcome was a setback for Mr Trump “because his basic message is he is a winner and now he lost the first contest for which he was ever...
...The shortlist has since narrowed, with Michele Flournoy, a former number three Pentagon official, saying she did not want to be considered, as did Rhode Island senator Jack Reed, who has been mentioned twice...
...The first two, Michèle Flournoy, also a former senior Pentagon official, and Jack Reed, a Democratic senator from Rhode Island, turned him down. Ms Flournoy cited family reasons....
...“All the authorities that Congress has historically given the secretary to manage periods of drawdown have not been given this time,” said Michele Flournoy, a former senior Pentagon official who had been...
...Other names discussed include Ashton Carter, former deputy secretary of defence, and Jack Reed, a Democratic senator....
...Other names being discussed include Ashton Carter, former deputy secretary of defence, and Jack Reed, Democratic senator for Rhode Island....
...defence, and Michele Flournoy, who was a senior official at the Pentagon from 2009 to 2012 and who has been a prominent adviser in the election campaign....
...Her purple prose has been compared to the boisterous fiction of Angela Carter or Jeanette Winterson....
...“It took a Jimmy Carter for us to get a Ronald Reagan, so it may very well take a Barack Obama for us to get a Michele Bachmann,” he says....
...Jimmy Carter’s peanuts and Ronald Reagan’s jelly beans added to the snack mix....
...Across the country, another firebrand and Tea Party favourite, congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, is widely believed to be putting the final touches on her own presidential bid for the Republican...
...The brassy Michele Bachmann, founder and chairman of the Tea Party caucus in the House of Representatives, won the hearts of the audience with her pithy promises to oust Mr Obama....
...Until Bill Clinton’s wildly popular appearance in 2000, no US president had bothered to visit since Jimmy Carter in 1978 (a trip that no one in India can seem to recall)....
...The internal Pentagon review, to be led by Army General Carter Ham and General Counsel Jeh Johnson, is expected to look at how the policy change might affect unit morale, recruitment and retention, as well...
...says Leslie Gelb, an official in the Carter administration and former head of the Council on Foreign Relations. “Why wasn’t George Mitchell in the room? Where was Jones?”...
...“She has every right to stay in the race if she chooses to do so,” Dianne Feinstein, the senator from California, said on Sunday....
...Like most Soros soirées, the gathering included more artists and statesmen than Masters of the Universe: Michèle Pierre-Louis, the prime minister of Haiti and former head of her country’s Soros foundation...
...Michele Placido’s draggy direction is a minus. The plus is the whiff of authenticity....
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