Hints and tips:
...“If your own organisation doesn’t have any women, except in a clerical capacity, you can’t imagine that other people might,” she says....
...The question is whether humanity has the wisdom and the capacity to do what is needed....
...Taking his cue from the Arab historian Ibn Kahldun, who wrote that “dynasties have a natural lifespan like individuals”, Sebag Montefiore sees the story of Jerusalem as “biography”....
...AR: And the same with George W Bush? KA: George, yes. This may surprise you, we got on well. One on one, I consider George a friend....
...The author’s measured prose, and his capacity for observing emotional nuance, spare this book from sentimentality....
...Penn began his series depicting individuals – plasterer, fireman, head waiter, charwoman – in their work clothes in Paris in 1950, then continued it in London and New York....
...Russia may be more inclined towards re-creating a bipolar world, but it too has a stake in co-operation and, in any event, lacks the capacity to challenge the US....
...Democrats and Republicans have spent countless hours debating how long US troops should stay in Iraq since George W. Bush in January unveiled his “surge” strategy designed to defeat the insurgency....
...Larijani, in Farsi, at his Tehran office on February 17, 2008....
...An exceptional memory is helpful, but a freak ability in, say, mental arithmetic, such as that of the 19th-century wunderkind George Parker Bidder, is no guarantee....
...In an essay reprinted in the collection of “reflections” on the late Pope from The Tablet, George Weigel, the official biographer, insists that “neither John Paul nor the historic initiatives of his papacy...
...equally he saw no point in the convoluted self-denials of would-be religious people whose abnegations only fuelled their own repressed desires....
...The oppression of women in many of these countries is such a suppression of competing capital. It is wrong to see that oppression in legal or religious terms alone....
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