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...There is plenty of menace in White Fox (Bantam, £18.99/Doubleday, $28), the last volume of Owen Matthews’ outstanding trilogy featuring KGB Lt Col Alexander Vasin....
...War veteran Lt Col Tim Spicer, who served in the Falklands and Northern Ireland, founded Sandline International, a private military company, on retiring in 1994....
...“If they seek an emergency appeal, they need five votes in their favour” to put the district court injunction on hold, said Josh Blackman, a professor at the South Texas College of Law in Houston....
...Kathleen Cooper, the board chairman, said they would be adding more soon....
...“[Putin] is not happy with the situation,” says Lt-Gen Romanenko. “He sees that as time drags on, the worse it plays out for his long-term Ukraine and Russia plans . . ....
...plans being sold on the new healthcare exchanges in New York, Texas, and California, for example, will not offer patients’ access to Memorial Sloan Kettering in Manhattan or MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston...
...Since its 1987 Houston premiere, John Adams’s Nixon in China has been round the world....
...“There were rumours that central banks were active in the markets this morning selling the Japanese currency,” said Kathleen Brooks at Forex.com....
...When Nixon in China had its premiere in Houston back in 1987, many observers registered ecstasy. A few registered ennui. Count this observer among the few....
...President Hu’s official visit to the US would also be closely watched, said Kathleen Brooks of Forex.com: “Any sign of an escalation in currency tensions between the two nations could hurt risky assets.”...
...Additional reporting by Sheila McNulty in Houston...
...Bush and Mr Nagin than Kathleen Blanco, his Democratic predecessor....
...He said Patrick Gower, refining vice-president for BP’s US region, and he believed Kathleen Lucas, Texas City operations manager, had also been interviewed....
...Earlier this year, Kathleen Harrington Clark, mother oftwo daughters and owner of a photography gallery in Houston, Texas, decided she wanted to return to the corporate working world....
...Political tension between Bush and Kathleen Blanco, the Democratic governor of Louisiana, was one factor. The Homeland Security Department’s single-minded focus on terrorism was another....
...I’ve worn tails and cheesecloth as an escort at a debutante party in Houston and a traditional tuxedo, without the patent leather shoes, to various university versions of a high school prom....
...Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco said “miles and miles of homes“ were under water. “Some neighborhoods will need total rebuilding,“ she said....
...It's getting more difficult to get food and water supplies in,” just basic essentials,”said Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco....
...Lt-Gen Strock said the rescue and rebuilding effort had been hampered by poor communications and impeded access....
...The state of Texas has announced that it will accept 23,000 refugees in Houston’s Astrodome....
...Lt Gen Russel Honoré, the army commander who took control of the relief effort, said on Sunday that the logistical problems were formidable....
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