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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....
...The result is that Getreide now owns dozens of watches valued at more than £1mn apiece, among which are five Patek Philippes that once belonged to the celebrated prewar collector Henry Graves Jr — the largest...
...Henry Sr helped bankroll the presidential campaigns of Woodrow Wilson; Henry Jr would marry a member of the Lehman family....
...A couple of years ago, I received a phone call from Henry Louis Gates Jr, director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard (and a friend), telling me that he had just...
...Crestview Partners co-founder Thomas Murphy Jr has joined Berkshire Hathaway’s board of directors....
...Sammy Wilson thinking of Sammy Wilson, Ian Paisley, who have come out firing on all cylinders to say it’s really not good enough....
...Edward Nelson is in fine fettle as Schneidebart, the Figaro-like barber who masterminds the shenanigans, and Harold Wilson plays Morosus with an apt blend of bluster and amicability....
...Americans have been wagering on presidential elections since George Washington and doing so in organised markets since at least Abraham Lincoln....
...Bee Wilson is author of “The Way We Eat Now” Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...These two books are tangentially linked through the destruction of Henry Wilson’s familial home at Currygrane House, but they are also connected at a deeper level....
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...Leemore Marrett Jr’s Gilbert is witty, dignified and perplexed by the ignorance and prejudice he encounters. Martin Hutson, as Bernard, seems pinched and shrunken by his xenophobia....
...Among them were biographies of George Washington, by Woodrow Wilson and others, reminiscences of Old New York by Charles H Haswell, and of India by a Lt Col Pollock....
...It was a stunning result, which the firm hasn’t hit since the 1980s, when founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts were hailed (and derided) as Wall Street’s barbarians....
...Director Robert Icke likewise asks searching political questions in a new stage adaptation of George Orwell’s classic study of dictatorship, Animal Farm (Birmingham Rep from January 22, then UK tour)....
...The set-up recalls the case of George Strawbridge, grandson of the founder of Campbell’s Soup, who allied with activist hedge fund investor Dan Loeb to oust the entire board....
...In a pub near Russell Square, security guard George Maddox welcomed the “long overdue” ability to order a pint at the bar, rather than by a smartphone app....
...Nathaniel Parker’s bullish Henry turns increasingly volatile, spiteful and cruel....
...We had help this week from George Drake Jr., David da Silva, Peter Barber and Gavin Kallmann. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz....
...Nor, it seemed, would the English electorate now tolerate an earth-razing campaign of the kind needed to subdue Ireland, advocated by those like Sir Henry Wilson, the intransigent chief of the British Imperial...
...George Amponsah’s documentary on the rise and fall of the Black Power movement in Britain forms a fitting complement to the acclaimed drama Mangrove, directed by Steve McQueen, one of Black Power: A British...
...He remembers Martin Luther King Jr in his living room. His father, a physician, treated Malcolm X after his home in New York was firebombed....
...Even ones that don’t have big egos, like Jimmy Carter and George H W Bush, have a hard time adjusting to [civilian] life.”...
...What did Henry IV say on his deathbed to his son Hal?...
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