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...Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire, by Tim Harper, Allen Lane, RRP£35/Belknap Press, RRP$39.95, 864 pages Harper’s magnificent, sweeping study of Asian revolutionary movements...
...It is a good read but it comes close to the “Great Man” hypothesis, the Kenneth Clark rather than the John Berger approach to the urban....
...James Lovegrove Young adult The Nest, by Kenneth Oppel, David Fickling Books, RRP£10.99/Simon & Schuster, RRP$16.99 A boy with potentially fatal allergies battles the gigantic wasp-queen of the hive in...
...My Dear BB: The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-59, edited by Robert Cumming, Yale University Press, RRP£25/$45 A meeting of minds between the flamboyant connoisseur and the distinguished...
...“If there’s a safety defect, if there’s a defect identified, we go fix the part, we fix the system,” Ms Barra told Gregg Harper, a Mississippi Republican....
...“At a time of austerity …the public would think that was bizarre,” Mr Harper said in an interview with the Financial Times....
...I first encountered the idea of wilful blindness when I read the transcript of the trial of Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay, CEO and chairman of Enron....
...The Puritan Gift: Triumph, Collapse and Revival of an American Dream By Kenneth and Will Hopper I.B....
...Kenneth Branagh’s film of The Magic Flute, in which a coloratura-crazy monarch disinforms a questing couple, is still to come....
...A Midwinter’s Tale Out-of-work actor Joe Harper decides to stage Hamlet for Christmas - and it’s downhill from there, in Kenneth Branagh’s comic film....
...Kenneth Jay Lane's huge gold cuffs suddenly look right, and come in many textures and shapes; while Celine, in deference to the goddess look, has gold-coloured cuffs inlaid with large stones....
...Kenneth Williams, abstinent in everything (particularly joie de vivre), died of an overdose of barbiturates at 62, with a valedictory “Oh, what’s the point!”...
...Mike Myers may have made more films and John Kenneth Galbraith may have advised more presidents. But the elegant Ignatieff has become an eminent contributor to 21st century liberal thought....
...Two of his uncles, Kenneth Arrow and Paul Samuelson, had won Nobel prizes in economics....
...Brent Bozell; and The French Betrayal of America, by Kenneth Timmerman. Traitors here, traitors there, traitors, traitors everywhere....
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