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...Yet Steyn persevered for months, putting together a business plan aimed at making Koch a local “king-maker”, operating bars, restaurants and massage parlours that would act as a pipeline for bribing police...
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...Yes, it is a liberty, but it is one that lends the work potency and passion, and, as a programme note from historian Ashley Douglas observes, is not entirely without precedent....
...King said that the IRA and an earlier $1.2tn bipartisan infrastructure law were “never enough” to achieve US climate targets, and a revision in short-term forecasts may be necessary....
...Aside from the IRA, there are a number of proposed regulations that can help the country inch closer to its 50 per cent emissions reduction target, said King, including the Environmental Protection Agency...
...In the King’s speech last November, the government unveiled 21 bills it hoped to pass in this parliamentary session, which will end when Sunak calls a general election, which must happen by January 28, 2025...
...Sinn Féin was long considered the IRA’s mouthpiece. O’Neill, who comes from a working-class background and became a mother at 16, rose through party ranks after entering politics two decades ago....
...A prime example is the Windeler range of multitools by former Dyson engineer Douglas Windeler, which lets you combine a set of screwdrivers, knives and other tools into one neat magnetic stack....
...Although the perpetrators, members of a dissident group called the Real IRA, were known, no one has ever been brought to justice for those murders....
...“The IRA impacts not just the drugs targeted for negotiation today but the entirety of the biotech ecosystem and funding decisions,” says Rachel King, interim president and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation...
...Black has only a king and a pawn on the board, and only one legal move in the diagram, but you will do well to crack this tricky puzzle in a quarter of an hour. Click here for solution...
...Josefowitz, who died in 2015, was introduced to Rembrandt’s engravings by a chance meeting on a flight with the American art dealer Ira Gale in 1969....
...So too are Northern Irish politicians who want to end British rule of the region and whose erstwhile ally, the IRA, blew up the King’s “honorary grandpa”, Lord Louis Mountbatten....
...His name was made when wildlife documentary makers Malcolm Douglas and Steve Irwin, both soon friends, arrived to make films....
...Jonathan Saunders, fashion designerShuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart It’s a Glaswegian story and it’s in a colloquial style, so it took me back to my hometown....
...Windhorst has the network of high-powered contacts befitting a consummate survivor, with his Rolodex including everyone from reformed junk bond king Michael Milken to Hollywood A-lister Michael Douglas....
...Despite the IRA, “they are able to get two of the biggest US players to effectively pave their way into the US,” he said....
...People like Peter King, the Republican New York Congressman, had been the bane of our life....
...There was no mention of anything in the King’s Speech last week and while some kind of statutory instrument — which even officials say would be only a fig leaf — could be used, there is no clarity yet on...
...When the IRA detonated a truck bomb outside the Arndale shopping centre in 1996, Manchester had only just finished demolishing 3,280 flats in Hulme, 20 years after they were completed....
...July is also the height of the traditional unionist marching season celebrating Protestant King William’s victory over Catholic King James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. And height is the word....
...He stood up for civilian control of government against the would-be warrior-king General Douglas MacArthur....
...Her reference to the hand of friendship recalled the Queen’s historic handshake with the late former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness, who had been an IRA commander before becoming a politician....
...If anything, her unceasing loyalty and affection for King Charles, an otherwise fussy man-child, has lent him a red-blooded desirability. Of sorts....
...In the years that followed, the King was a regular visitor....
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