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...David W GreenLondon NW3, UK...
...Billionaire donors such as Ken Griffin and Harold Hamm showered cash on anti-Trump candidates. But there was no strategy or co-ordination of their efforts....
...It’s more the fundamentals,” said Bob McNally, president of consultancy Rapidan Energy and a former energy adviser to George W Bush....
...Among established Republican donors, Trump expects to depend upon Oklahoma oil tycoon Harold Hamm and casino magnate Miriam Adelson, who stayed neutral in the primary....
...In 1954 he took the lead, opposite Dorothy Dandridge, in Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Bizet’s opera with an all-black cast....
...Express (forerunner of the Train Bleu), the Sud Express, the Rome and Simplon Expresses — all part of that great narcotic conspiracy, with its cashmere blankets, pressed linen and soft illumination, the W-L...
...It made Harold Hamm, who bet the farm that he could blast oil from the Bakken’s brittle shales, America’s most famous oilman — and a billionaire. An oil price crash in 2014 hurt the sector....
...Starr pulled out all stops to dissuade George W Bush’s Department of Justice from filing sex trafficking charges against America’s most notorious underage abuser....
...For a certain kind of establishment Republican, David McCormick has the perfect CV: a West Point graduate and former Army ranger with a PhD from Princeton, several years in the George W Bush administration...
...In 2003, George W Bush brushed aside France and Germany’s objections to his Iraq invasion plans....
...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...
...Harold Macmillan’s Conservative government first dabbled with the idea of an earnings-related state pension in the early 1960s, before Labour’s Harold Wilson championed a more full-blooded version, alongside...
...I count myself among the many semi-admirers of Germany’s outgoing — and first female — chancellor, and its second-longest serving one since Otto Von Bismarck (Helmut Kohl was in office for just three months...
...Serving during the war with General Eisenhower in Algiers, Harold Macmillan coined the conceit that Britain could act as Greece to America’s Rome....
...Her encounter was with Professor Harold Livermore, who’d bought the house in 1947 and had been living there ever since....
...Harold Macmillan, having replaced Eden as British prime minister after Suez, took a more hard-headed view....
...Hank Paulson did the same job in George W Bush’s administration. Gary Cohn was economic adviser to Donald Trump....
...Harold van Waveren, of the ministry of infrastructure and water management, says: “The Netherlands is the best-protected delta in the world....
...He presents ‘The Ratline’, a new BBC podcast and Radio 4 series, and is the author of ‘East West Street’ (W&N/Vintage) Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...The English patrician Harold Macmillan struck up an unlikely rapport with John F Kennedy, an Irish-American Catholic....
...It took an emergency summit between prime minister Harold Macmillan and president John Kennedy for the US to substitute the much more appropriate Polaris missile....
...Japan pleaded with the Americans for leniency, but President George W Bush, with the US already mired in the war in Afghanistan, took a hard line....
...Margaret Beckett 2006-2007 Labour Margaret Beckett is the last surviving member of Harold Wilson’s government in the House of Commons....
...It also follows the death of Otto Warmbier, a US student who died following his release from North Korea where he had fallen into a coma during more than a year in captivity....
...Yes, but ramshackle the way Lewis Carroll or Laurence Sterne or W.G. Sebald is. The ramshackleness of genius....
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