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...Britain won’t be one of them, for as long as it is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights. Albert Pierrepoint was born in March 1905, the middle child of Mary and Henry Pierrepoint....
...Ted Cruz and John F Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald....
...The VAT cut for tourism and hospitality will also probably be reversed to as well as the abolition of stamp duty for houses under £500,000. But they will be minor....
...“John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr — where are you now that we need you?” Americans offered to assassinate Brooker instead; he carried on, delighting in insult and exaggeration....
...“And you live in Los Angeles at that time?” he continues, once I’ve selected his 2014 hippie epic Inherent Vice, and a minor role as one of its colourful array of lovable stoners....
...The trauma of her father’s affair with Marla Maples brought her and her two brothers – Don Jr and Eric Trump – closer together....
...When Joseph Mallord William Turner told a friend that “no one would believe, upon seeing my likeness, that I painted those pictures”, he pinpointed the tragic irony that would jinx every presentation of...
...But as a minor player in that tale herself — her father ran the talent agency that became the conglomerate Universal — her strange brew of interview subjects brings novelistic riches....
...“People refer to it as a tale of two cities,” he says. “One part has the best of times, and the other part the worst of times.”...
...’s one-child policy through the story of a rural midwife, Gugu, caught between loyalty to communist policies and her maternal instincts...
...’ trade unions and worked as personal secretary to her father Karl....
...“No one had the first clue. The KGB even thought karate was a religion,” he laughs. “We watched Bruce Lee movies thinking they were some sort of mystical experience. Can you imagine?”...
...Bernanke’s academic training as a monetary economist, particularly as a scholar of the Depression, hadn’t come up in his interview with President George W....
...he moved in and out of relationships, ceaselessly on the lookout for the next woman, the next casual encounter)....
...A friend, congresswoman Sala Burton, was dying of cancer and asked Ms Pelosi to run for her San Francisco seat. Ms Pelosi won and followed in her father’s footsteps....
...The death in a plane crash of John F Kennedy Jr, JFK’s oldest son, in 1999, added to the long history of family tragedy, as did the various problems of other relatives....
...His biological father turned out to be a minor British aristocrat. Vaughn was educated at Stowe and briefly at University College London, before dropping out to pursue his film career....
...Johnson succeeded her father as chairman in 1982....
...Mr Martin can now reveal, he tells visitors to his website, that Mr Obama is not, in fact, the son of his supposed Kenyan father but rather the child of Frank Marshall Davis, a 1960s black political activist...
...Each man was enslaved by his longstanding habit of thinking in only one direction. “Uncle Frank was a total bear on the world, and Uncle John was a total bull....
...Diary of a Bad Year By J.M....
...It’s the wrong story and the wrong movie. Of all the 9/ll traumas and terrors, Stone picks a minor survival tale and gives it the Hollywood treatment....
...A friend had given him access to uniforms and medals. Carlson was arrested and faces six months in jail and a $500 fine for wearing a military uniform and medals. Judge Ronald J....
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