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...Harry and Meghan may have fallen out with some of the old British aristocracy, but many of the new Californian aristocracy think they are just great....
...In 2006, the year Piaggio floated on the Milan stock exchange, production topped 100,000 and, under the headline “Vespa’s Builder Scoots Back to Profitability”, Colaninno Sr told the Wall Street Journal:...
...In his memoir Present at the Creation (1969), Dean Acheson, a former US secretary of state, describes how he and fellow “Wise Men” helped President Harry Truman to build a new liberal, rule-based order after...
...Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr’s sense for the zeitgeist meant that shoppers got a glimpse of Louis Blériot’s aeroplane days after he crossed the English channel in it in 1909 and John Logie Baird first demonstrated...
...The Obama presidency does not compare well with, say, Harry Truman’s after 1945 or George HW Bush’s in 1989....
...Focusing on the period immediately following LaFaro’s death, Martell writes from the perspectives of Bill’s gentle brother Harry, his wistful mother Mary and his gruff father Harry Sr, as they try to assuage...
...Harry Truman was president when Joe McCarthy got going. It was Dwight Eisenhower that warned of the “military-industrial complex” and of getting involved in a land war in Asia....
...He may have taken his cue from the failed re-election attempts of Jimmy Carter and George Bush Sr. But the more apt example is from 1948....
...The massacre victims were female relatives and supporters of a political rival who was planning to run for governor against the clan patriarch, Andal Ampatuan Sr, as well as journalists travelling with them...
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...Some time after my visit to Maguindanao I spoke to Harry Roque Jr, a lawyer representing 14 victims of the massacre....
...Armitage suggests that history may not be as kind to Bush as it has been to President Harry Truman, whose legacy improved with age....
...In More Than a Game, John Major, the cricket-mad former British prime minister, recalls explaining the sport to President George Bush Sr – his “eyes swivelled when he realised that a match could last five...
...Harry Eyres is the “Slow Lane” columnist for FT Weekend....
...Schlesinger Sr, the distinguished historian, polled historians and political scientists to rank American presidents from “great” to “failure”....
...Jones progressed swiftly, scoring an 80 when he was 11, the year two English champions, Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, played an exhibition match at East Lake....
...This month EasyJet, the UK budget airline, awarded a 10-year contract to the Swiss-based SR Technics for maintenance support following a competitive global tender....
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