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...Speakers include Michael Gove, Rachel Reeves, Jesse Armstrong, and many others....
...In his speech at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson urged the American people to find common ground and unity....
...“Michael Jackson’s moonwalk changed the game,” comments Khan of the key influence on this style, although Elvis’s pelvis also seems relevant....
...When 18-year-old Wayne Rooney moved 35 miles up the motorway from Everton to Manchester United in 2004, the club parked its £26m signing in a hotel room....
...One of those artists who has the ability like Michael Jackson to recognise the pulse of America.” A waitress has arrived to take orders....
...At the time of writing, the tub-thumping Jesse Jackson Jr is on stage at the convention, trying to whip the crowd into a more friendly chant: “It’s healing time. It’s hope time. It’s Hillary time.”...
...Judge Jesse Furman rebuked regulators for leaping into ill-considered action in response to Flash Boys, Michael Lewis’s polemic against HFTs....
...Throughout Bootycandy, the energetic, fun-filled evening at Playwrights Horizons, we see and hear reminders of Michael Jackson – from The Wiz to “Thriller”....
...The performance ended with Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel” taken as a shuffle and driven to ecstasy by drummer Landham’s controlled dynamics and whipcrack back beat....
...The biggest film of this year was Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth film based on the Hasbro toy line....
...In the US, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr diverted $750,000 in campaign funds to buy himself treats such as a $40,000 Rolex and a hat worn by Michael Jackson....
...“Obama gave him a big wet kiss,” says Delmarie Cobb, a South Side activist who helped manage Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential bid....
...A student at Oxford, I had heard that Michael Cimino was shooting some scenes for his new film in the university grounds and rushed to volunteer as an extra....
...Jackson once dangled one of his babies in a moment of manic exuberance....
...Jackson’s speeches....
...I understand who John Wayne is, and Marilyn Monroe, and I understand popular culture and the political trajectory of being North American....
...According to Hancock, only Eddy Grant had appeared before him, and, at around the same time, Michael Jackson. He hopes that The Imagine Project will also be a force for change....
...Wayne McGregor, choreographer. Steve McQueen, for services to the visual arts. Michael Oglesby, for services to business and to charity....
...Mehldau’s career takes in the top range of jazz – unlike many successful band leaders, he doesn’t shirk sideman duties and can list Wayne Shorter, Michael Brecker and John Scofield as credits....
...He once said of Wayne Rooney: “It’s an incredible rise to stardom: at 17 you’re more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven-Göran Eriksson.”...
...He succeeds Wayne Jackson as CEO, and remains on the board. • Avanade, a Microsoft systems integrator, has made Michael Paulson its UK CTO....
...There is some disappointment among African-American Chicagoans that in Mr Obama’s attempt to transcend race he distanced himself from prominent black leaders such as Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah...
...But there are fears that his candidacy will succumb to the country’s obsession with race: relegating the Illinois senator to the role of “black candidate” that was unsuccessfully played by Jesse Jackson,...
...Who can forget the shot of the Rev Jesse Jackson, tears rolling down his cheeks, as he waited in the early hours of the morning for the president-elect’s victory address in Grant Park, Chicago?...
...Stories that Michael Jackson slept every night in a hyperbaric chamber didn’t help. Had he actually done so, he’d now be dead as more than three or four hours of pure oxygen can poison you....
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