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...Isaac Solo Kegbeh said “yes, that is correct”, when asked if media reports of a call from Weah to the opposition candidate Boakai were accurate....
...For Raymond Chandler, advertising agencies were the acme of the “waste of human intelligence”. But the century-old tradition may have died with Weldon....
...In August, three government officials, including Nathaniel McGill, chief of staff to the president, were alleged by the US Treasury department to have engaged in public corruption....
...Isaac Babel’s masterpiece is Red Cavalry, a collection of stories based on the 1919-21 Polish-Soviet war....
...Shalamov speaks with particular fury about writers — from Victor Hugo to Isaac Babel and Sergey Yesenin — whom he sees as having romanticised this world....
...March Violets had transplanted the hard-boiled private eye ethos of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe into another part of the world in the 1930s: a minatory Berlin, with its nascent fascism....
...In 1939 Jewish Alma Mendel is sent by her parents from her home in Warsaw to San Francisco and her aunt and uncle, Lilian and Isaac Belasco....
...When we encounter androids in the work of novelists such as Philip K Dick or Isaac Asimov, they are often tragic figures who demand an extension of sympathy: above all else they long to be human, which they...
...And education – which is in a dire state in SA – is another key issue, says Isaac Matshego, senior economist at Nedbank....
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