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...Lawrence Freedman is emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College London....
...On another bench, less than a mile away, sit Churchill and Roosevelt, immortalised in bronze bonhomie by her father, the sculptor Lawrence Holofcener....
...His exacting methods are legendary — Lawrence tore her diaphragm and dislocated a rib after hyperventilating during the filming of Mother! — and they are not for everyone....
...For Abraham Orden, a 43-year-old Jewish software executive from the Washington suburbs, the first inkling that the reaction to Hamas’s terror attack in southern Israel might not be what he anticipated came...
...From Lawrence of Arabia to Star Wars to Spaghetti Westerns, deserts have provided the backdrop for spectacular and enduring cinematic epics. There has also been the occasional Ishtar....
...As he points out, “Lawrence of Arabia is not very likeable but David Lean didn’t need to make him sympathetic to create an icon.”...
...Seventeen years on, Martin Lawrence (still funny) and Will Smith (not so much) reprise their roles as mismatched buddy cops, Lawrence having become a cuddly family man while Smith is still married firmly...
...This suggested that the type of racism people experienced or witnessed had changed over time, according to Tanya Abraham, an associate director at YouGov who carried out the research....
...Lights that won’t switch off are the most infuriating — Letter from Anya Lawrence Michael Skapinker’s readers are right....
...The enjoyment in Lawrence Boswell’s sprightly production (first seen at the Ustinov Theatre, Bath) lies in watching Abraham’s expert blend of charm and malice as Benjamin....
...Mr Xi’s speech in Davos in January quoting Abraham Lincoln and laying out a Chinese vision for the global economic system at a time when the US is turning inward was the rhetorical edge of a concerted strategy...
...It can be a dizzying process for the actors, who in American Hustle include Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro....
...Ms Lawrence founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, and has sat on Home Office and police panels....
...Robert De Niro is so wonderfully unhinged as his hyper-superstitious bookmaker father it’s almost as if Travis Bickle had given up taxi driving and raised a family in Philly, while Jennifer Lawrence gives...
...Among the other new faces are Doreen Lawrence, the justice campaigner and mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, who is among the new Labour peers....
...The people vote hoping for the brilliance of a George Washington or Abraham Lincoln....
...Daniel Day-Lewis won his third Oscar for his performance as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln....
...It was Abraham Lincoln, after all, who founded the National Academy of Sciences, and during the cold war, there was heavy investment in science, as America reeled from its “Sputnik moment” (or fears that...
...Mr Chu is widely respected across the political spectrum for his leadership of the energy department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, which he has focused on renewable energy technology...
...Abraham would dole out milk to the poor crying “Ibrahim haleb” or, losing something in translation, “Abraham has milked”....
...Other presidents including Abraham Lincoln, who was raised in the semi-proverbial log cabin and whose short Illinois résumé Mr Obama almost precisely tracks, grew up in poverty....
...Murray Abraham, already in character as an alien, intense Shylock. I’m not the first to have mistaken him for a Jew. Everybody seems to....
...The following is a partial transcript of remarks made by Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to former secretary of state Colin Powell, to the New America Foundation, a Washington think-tank....
...Just hope that someone draws the line before a reality show invites viewers to “press the red button if you want Abraham to spare his son . . . ” mudlark@ft.com...
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