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...When God handed down the Ten Commandments to Moses, he felt compelled to remind his flock how to treat their neighbours: do not covet their possessions, their wife or their ass....
...Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492—1900 , by Simon Schama, Bodley Head, RRP£25/Ecco, RRP$39.99, 800 pages David N Myers is president and chief executive of the Center for Jewish History in New York,...
...Golding, after being steered away from a childhood obsession with Guns N’ Roses, was more interested in classical music than jazz, and attended classical saxophone classes as a child....
...Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, by Alice Walker, W&N, RRP£18.99/Atria, RRP$30 (September) Extracts from 50 years of journals and letters by the author of The Color Purple....
...But “rock’n’roll” had connotations that were sacred, too. In a 1910 recording, the black vocal harmony group the Male Quartette sing about “rocking and rolling/in the arms of Moses”....
...With £11m investment and led by N Brown, the home shopping business, the project says it has helped 133 companies and created almost 2,000 jobs....
...Among numerous expressions of outrage at Hunter’s discursive use of “the N-word”, PFA chairman Clarke Carlisle’s insistence that when attending a comedy club “you know you might have to leave your moral...
...Austin Williams and Alastair Donald, the editors of The Lure of the City, are more on Moses’ side....
...It was a time when swathes of that part of New York lay in ruins, a legacy of Robert Moses’ road-building programme....
...It is one of the best-known stories in the world, with some of the most iconic moments and images: baby Moses and the bulrushes, the Ten Plagues the parting of the Red Sea....
...Adam and his son Abdel look after a hotel’s swimming pool in the heart of N’Djamena....
...A.N. Wilson, the literary biographer, said: “It is more or less unreadable. Like his speeches, it is always on the verge of making no sense at all....
...But in the 1940s, urban planner Robert Moses’ “re-zoning” contracted the “tawdry” amusement area and, by 1964, the three parks had closed....
...“I choose you, you shall be my Moses,” Cruz chuckles, before sounding a more modest note. “Actually, to be fair, it was his people who called.”...
...Topics included the difficulty of being urgent when you’re trying to remember how to inflect Latin, Moses’ draft Commandments and members of the Order of Assassins carrying out a contract while zonked on...
...“We deprecate the use of the term ‘nigger’ as applied to Negroes,” wrote Garvey in his African Declaration of Rights, “and demand that the word ‘Negro’ will be written with a capital ‘N’.”...
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