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...“We have been getting questions about the safety and feeling of welcome-ness from Chinese students,” said John Wilkerson, director of international admissions at Indiana University....
...South African banker John Staley took that role last April, filling a gap that had been left empty since John Vitalo quit in February 2017 amid growing investor concerns over faltering performance and share...
...Speak No Evil, by Uzodinma Iweala, John Murray, RRP£18.99/Harper, RRP$26.99 A long-awaited second novel by the author of Beasts of No Nation....
...I am also addicted to early John le Carré adaptations, such as Smiley’s People. They are very dark, sparse and incredibly powerful....
...Later he became established in Seinfeld , before becoming known as Hal Wilkerson, the dad in the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle....
...john.dizard@ft.com...
...Will John Mack, chief executive of Morgan Stanley, rendered brilliantly by Tony Shalhoub, tell Matthew Modine’s John Thain, head of Merrill Lynch, where to stick it when he suggests the assembled bankers...
...“The real nail is in Pakistan,” says Larry Wilkerson, a retired army colonel who was chief of staff to Colin Powell, the former secretary of state....
...That would require a significant improvement from the quarter won by John Kerry in 2004....
...Excluding Mike Huckabee, who has admitted it would take a “miracle” for him to take the Republican nomination, the remaining presidential contenders – John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – have...
...Both she and John McCain, the likely Republican nominee, criticise the Obama proposals as rash....
...Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff (referring to Mr Bolton’s attempts to get as many countries as possible to sign agreements that would exempt US nationals from being prosecuted in...
...“The moment Bob Gates walks through the door of the river entrance, the morale of the armed forces will soar,” says Col Wilkerson....
...Unlike in Vietnam, where the draft lottery meant that members of the elite, such as John Kerry, the failed 2004 presidential candidate, served in uniform, the Iraq war has disproportionately drawn in people...
...I mean, John Kennedy trusted his brother, who was Attorney General, made his brother Attorney General, probably far more than he should have....
...Wilkerson did not deserve one, she replied curtly....
...Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, could hardly be counted a friend of the White House....
...First to criticise the vice-president was congressman John Murtha, a former Marine, who ripped into Cheney’s repeated avoidance of the draft during the Vietnam war (a response to Cheney’s accusation that...
...Democrats on the Senate foreign relations committee will on Thursday make a final attempt to persuade their Republican colleagues to block the nomination of John Bolton for US ambassador to the United Nations...
...Powell himself expressed his reservations in discreetly leaked phone conversations with senators; his former chief of staff, Larry Wilkerson, said he thought the selection “abysmal.”...
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