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...Sir Fred had not intended to be an economist — he went to Jesus College Oxford to read modern languages....
...Among the most intriguing of these monstricides is Margaret of Antioch, an early Christian virgin who was tossed into prison, with Satan for a cellmate....
...This season it’s the Jesus and Mary Chain and Cocteau Twins. Real camera, smartphone, or straight to Instagram?...
...… What strikes me about all the right-to-die campaigners I have now met is their extraordinary joie de vivre....
...Now, in Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), she extends our acquaintance of this remarkable circle....
...Margaret MacMillan’s monumental The War That Ended Peace (Profile) must rank at the top of the pile....
...Jesus is gone but Mary is still on earth, harassed by evangelists who want to make her life a story....
...John Cornwell Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and author of ‘Newman’s Unquiet Grave’ (Continuum) ………………………………………….....
...France’s Charles de Gaulle, Britain’s David Lloyd George and America’s President Lincoln all produced fine words in adversity....
...The hilarious De la Garza, of the bravura “disabled toilet” scene, makes another appearance, and the narrator, Deza, returns from London to Madrid....
...A tour de force....
...But for perceptive observations on the issues of the day, leavened with humour and common-sense, it is hard to beat The Globe’s Margaret Wente....
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