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...According to the Daily Advertiser in Lafayette, one woman in the audience stood up and said: “Everybody take your mask off. They can’t throw everybody out of here.” She was removed, the paper noted....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...I didn’t respect my father either.”...
...“Don’t forget: Morgenthau lost his share of difficult cases.”...
...Monica Dolan’s superb Toni is a tornado of rage and misery, while Steven Mackintosh’s brittle Bo and Edward Hogg’s volatile Franz are clearly putting up a desperate front....
...And sure enough, many commentators remarked on how restrained Trump had been since Bush Sr’s death was announced. He didn’t tweet anything ugly about the Bushes....
...The future isn’t, perhaps, lost yet....
...The venue is The Oval Room, an upmarket modern American restaurant the other side of Lafayette Square to the White House....
...But in 1979, at the age of 50, Bonham Carter Sr was diagnosed with a brain tumour; an operation to remove it left him paralysed from the neck down. “It was a devastating setback,” Edward recalls....
...The enlivening effect won’t be restricted to New York....
...But Mr Huntsman could give no guarantee he wouldn’t repeat offend. Which leaves Mr Kerry. His nomination would tell us three things....
...George Bush Sr vowed in 1988 never to raise taxes and was punished for breaking it. Every Republican since has learnt that lesson. Doing the right thing is no defence....
The do-gooding naifs who wander on to America’s political stage occasionally alter the script
...Edward Luce is the FT’s chief US commentator and author of ‘Time To Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline’ (Little, Brown)...
...“I don’t know the answer to that. I really don’t know.” Brzezinski quotes a senior Chinese official who reportedly said of America: “Please don’t decline too quickly”....
...Imagine Jimmy Carter writing a screed on how to govern America halfway through Clinton’s presidency – or better still, a public missive from Bush Sr to Bush Jr....
...“Forgers tend to be embittered souls,” says Edward Dolnick, author of a book about Van Meegeren....
...Edward Luce is the FT’s Washington bureau chief ……………………………….....
...At two o’clock Tuesday morning, Louella Cook, a school principal from Lafayette, Louisiana, began the day that her father always said would come....
...Edward Stourton is a presenter on Radio 4’s ‘Today’. His new book, ‘It’s a PC World’, is published by Hodder & Stoughton on November 13, £14.99....
...“I can’t tell you how frustrated John has been – to the point of self-destruction – by facing off against someone that he doesn’t respect,” says a close friend who chatted frequently with the defeated Republican...
...And thus we meet on a sunny afternoon at the Bombay Club – a popular restaurant across Lafayette Square from the White House....
...We lived in a place called 1300 Lafayette – a New York-type building with a doorman at the time when the city was prospering....
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