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...Suddenly barred from re-entering America by opaque machinations in the US state department, Chaplin finds himself aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth, bound for England....
...Elizabeth Prelogar, who argued on behalf of the US, warned the court that upholding the Moores’ challenge would cost the government “several trillions of dollars” in lost revenue....
...Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux (W&N/Crown Currency) It’ll be a while before a definitive account of the cryptocurrency phenomenon appears, but Bloomberg reporter...
...Add in Kitty’s ex-husband (Clive Francis) and handsome outsider Teddy (Chirag Benedict Lobo) who is wooing Elizabeth hard, and a crisis looms. Will Elizabeth stay or go?...
...Top-billing is John Singer Sargent’s 1891 “Egyptian Woman (Coin Necklace)”, $1.2mn-$1.8mn, while the collection also includes Frank W Benson’s glamorous portrait of one of his sisters, “Firelight” (1893)...
...SAVE representative Elizabeth Hopkirk launched its study on the future of Manchester by claiming that the “outdated thinking that regards towers as symbols of success is being challenged like never before...
...And Elizabeth Warren, right....
...Private equity billionaire John W Childs, another top-five donor, donated $975,000 to Trump’s re-election campaign together with his late wife....
...Here George W Bush takes star billing. Learning perhaps from Reagan’s slander on trees, Bush sunnily observed: “I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully”....
...When he teamed up in February last year with Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren — a well-known critic of the finance industry — to co-sponsor a bill to ban lawmakers from trading stocks, it was treated...
...I really liked Elizabeth Spiers’ smart take about Tom, Giselle, and the nature of marriage. There are many seasons of matrimony, and sometimes you have to call it game over....
...Stone Fish details the role played by former US presidents and high officials, such as George W Bush, Jimmy Carter, Madeleine Albright, Brent Scowcroft, William Cohen and Gary Locke....
...milestones — Newt Gingrich’s scorched earth approach to his term as polarising speaker of the House of Representatives in the 1990s, the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that handed the 2000 election to George W...
...In Starr’s case it is perhaps fortuitous that his death on Tuesday, aged 76, has been swamped by that of Queen Elizabeth. His legacy is not a good one....
...I really enjoyed this Elizabeth Kolbert piece in The New Yorker on how animals see the world, which picks up on The Atlantic writer Ed Yong’s new book on the same topic....
...Check out Tina Brown on the royals, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elizabeth Strout on their own recent work, and plenty of other highlights from the festival, here....
...This year’s highlights include work by Hermann Nitsch, who died earlier this month (Galerie RX), and tapestries that distort basketball players by Noel W Anderson (Zidoun-Bossuyt, $25,000-$55,000)....
...Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World Warby Howard W French, Liveright £25/$35 A recasting of the history of the modern world that places Africa...
...One transcending constant amid all the turmoil and rancour is Queen Elizabeth....
...George W Bush George W Bush came into office in 2001 with Alan Greenspan serving in his fourth term as chair of the Fed....
...John Roberts, the chief justice, who was appointed by George W Bush, expressed concern the justice department was seeking “limitless” authority for the federal government to challenge a state law....
...On December 13 2021, Police Constable Shannon McGill made her way to Ward 7A at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow....
...The virtual hearing’s major flashpoint was an exchange between Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, and Dimon over overdraft charges JPMorgan made last year during the Covid-19 crisis...
...Almost two decades ago Tony Blair, then UK prime minister, pledged to his American counterpart George W Bush “I will be with you, whatever”....
...During the George W Bush and Trump administrations, Republicans comfortably passed large-scale tax cut packages using their own majorities in Congress, even if they sharply increased US deficits....
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