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...Late in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr took a breather....
...Even ones that don’t have big egos, like Jimmy Carter and George H W Bush, have a hard time adjusting to [civilian] life.”...
...In 1995, local philanthropist Mitchell Wolfson Jr opened The Wolfsonian, a South Beach museum devoted to 19th and 20th-century objects and design....
...Losing The Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East, by Philip H Gordon, St Martin’s Press, RRP$29.99, 368 pages From Iran in 1953 to Libya in 2011, via Iraq in 2003 (as well as...
...(It was the start of a scandal that would eventually lead to Falwell Jr’s resignation from the university.)...
...Marsh, East Sussex, England Crossword 16,377: John Bevan, London; TF & JM Marshall, Scotland; Rae Seelig, London Polymath 1,057: Bridget Symeonides, Cyprus Crossword 16,371: Mr B Miller, Guernsey; Mr H...
...The most disconcerting aspect of the Brexit process remains the absence of what George H.W....
...The library has been designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and has raised a few eyebrows....
...Harding, the 29th President of the United States, would be disgraced after his sudden death by the revelation of scandal after scandal in his government; William Hale Thompson was the mayor of Chicago who...
...Few areas have changed as much as nearby H Street, which heads east from Union Station, near the Capitol....
...But like other predominantly African-American neighbourhoods, H Street was devastated by the nationwide riots following the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr....
...Triumphant in the first Gulf war, George H.W. Bush, in October 1991, went before the UN to declare that the US’s goal was now to build a “New World Order”....
...Their successors, John Major and George H.W. Bush, were not much less friendly as they fought the first Gulf war together....
...Probably the last undisputed rock star to lose was William Jennings Bryan in 1896, but that was before broadcasting was born. Both Roosevelts and Woodrow Wilson had the touch....
...The führer came up during an appearance by Hank Williams Jr, son of the country music legend and a popular singer in his own right....
...I first learnt about the dark side of business from the 11-year-old eponymous protagonist of William Gaddis’s 1975 National Book Award-winning novel, JR....
...Alexander Meigs Haig Jr was born on December 2 1924 in a Philadelphia suburb....
...But weighing 350lbs never deterred William Howard Taft, whose swing, according to Don van Natta Jr, author of Hail to the Cheats, “resembled a sumo wrestler trying to swat a gnat”....
...Dwight D. Eisenhower 82. Hugo Chávez 83, Olof Palme, Swedish PM, 1969-76, 1982-86 84. Kaiser Wilhelm II 85. Barack Obama 86. Sonia Gandhi 87....
...Sid Richardson was among those allegedly involved in letting friends, such as President Dwight Eisenhower, invest in his “good’’ wells but not his “bad”....
...CAMPOS, a lawyer and former member of the Securities and Exchange Commission under appointed by Bush Jr. He is 58 or 59 years old.William H....
...Clark Peter H. Comisar, investment banking, technology. William J. Conley Jr., securities lending Colin J. Corgan, head of US swaps trading. Jean A. De Pourtales, real estate investing....
...Clark, emerging markets debt fund manager Peter H. Comisar, investment banking, technology. William J. Conley Jr., securities lending Colin J. Corgan, head of US swaps trading. Jean A....
..., who worked with Mr Bolton under George H....
...Sidney Harman, Executive Chairman, Harman International Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman, Hasbro William H. Hayden, Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns Co. F....
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