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...Kissinger had easy access to every president, whether they were Democratic, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Biden, or the Republicans George Bush Sr and Jr, and Donald Trump....
...Women beneath parasols and men in linen suits, trailing guides and hawkers, peered into dank tombs, wandered through columned temples and had their pictures taken in front of the pyramids....
...Comment: Youngkin’s victory will serve as a template for the Republican campaign to retake Congress a year from now, writes Edward Luce. Thanks for reading FirstFT Americas....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...Edward Luce is the FT’s US national editor This article has been amended since original publication to reflect the origins of the Borgias Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories...
...Edward Spiro, a partner at Morvillo Abramowitz law firm, Mr Vance’s former firm, believes his ex-colleague will not be swayed by such concerns....
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...A section where the Prince of Wales makes a cameo appearance is also less assured than most of Mukherjee’s work, and he might have done better to leave Prince Edward offstage....
...Bethell used his reputation to raise F & C’s profile and acted as a figurehead for the venture, according to Nigel Edward Morecroft’s The Origins of Asset Management from 1700 to 1960....
...On this dank February day, it couldn’t feel further from the palm-fringed heat of Hollywood and the glitz of the Oscars, but this vast wander-in wardrobe has a starring role in the US film industry....
...The next low, dank room is a cave, suggestive of a war bunker; here we meet a shaggy philosopher-cat with a well-thumbed copy of Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West....
...Ultimately, you can blame either Edward Snowden or his former employer the US National Security Agency for disclosing (or carrying out) spying on foes and friends alike....
...But in 1979, at the age of 50, Bonham Carter Sr was diagnosed with a brain tumour; an operation to remove it left him paralysed from the neck down. “It was a devastating setback,” Edward recalls....
...Edward Stourton is author of ‘Cruel Crossing’ (Doubleday)...
...She was built in 1931 for Marjorie Merriweather Post, a breakfast cereal heiress, and her husband Edward Hutton, a New York stockbroker....
...George Bush Sr vowed in 1988 never to raise taxes and was punished for breaking it. Every Republican since has learnt that lesson. Doing the right thing is no defence....
...It is a service space, dark, a little dank, inhabited by the hum of air-conditioning units and the rattle of bins and delivery trolleys....
...Edward Luce is the FT’s chief US commentator and author of ‘Time To Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline’ (Little, Brown)...
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