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...An object I would never part with is a shovel from the groundbreaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in DC, in November 2006....
...Losing The Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East, by Philip H Gordon, St Martin’s Press, RRP$29.99, 368 pages From Iran in 1953 to Libya in 2011, via Iraq in 2003 (as well as...
...Marsh, East Sussex, England Crossword 16,377: John Bevan, London; TF & JM Marshall, Scotland; Rae Seelig, London Polymath 1,057: Bridget Symeonides, Cyprus Crossword 16,371: Mr B Miller, Guernsey; Mr H...
...The most disconcerting aspect of the Brexit process remains the absence of what George H.W....
...Mitsubishi Heavy, which made the H-2A rocket launched on Tuesday for a satellite, said it had conducted its own inspections on the material from the steel group ahead of lift off....
...It powers at 60 knots, that’s 110km/h! Bassani once generously lent this stupendous looking craft to me....
...The guy we didn’t like is that young man, Tony Blair. I don’t know where he is now. The economy Q: The economy is heavily indebted....
...It only came to power in 1997 – under Tony Blair – after defeating the left-wing faction....
...“As experienced directors, founders, and chief executives of Fortune 500 companies, David Filo, H....
...The Chinese market promises to be a fruitful one, says Peter Brooks of Genting. “There has been significant growth and we are going to see that continue,” he says....
...… Talking to Terrorists: How to End Armed Conflicts, by Jonathan Powell, Random House, RRP£20 As Tony Blair’s chief of staff, Powell played a key role in the Northern Ireland peace negotiations....
...Guests at Sagard have included former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and former US President George H.W. Bush....
...So, farewell H’Angus, monkey mayor of Hartlepool....
...Their successors, John Major and George H.W. Bush, were not much less friendly as they fought the first Gulf war together....
...In Aspen, Colorado in 1990 she helped persuade President George H.W. Bush to go to war against Saddam Hussein over Kuwait....
...By contrast, George H.W....
...Giving the Theodore H. White lecture at Harvard last November, she stressed that she was working a “gold mine”, and that the news media needed to attach themselves to the mother lode....
...As the political and industrial historian Nick Tiratsoo points out in his book From Blitz to Blair (1997), militancy was confined to specific, highly visible areas of the economy....
...Tony Blair is popular in the US for supporting American colonial adventures in Iraq. But his fee would dwarf the £1.4bn BP has spent so far on the clean-up....
...From the most unpromising of starts, he ended up with a far more impressive record, at least in electoral terms, than George H W Bush....
...Before you guess Guy Ritchie or Matthew Vaughn, know this: the answer is Peter Morgan, author of high-minded talk fests Frost/Nixon and The Queen. Vanessa Friedman is the FT’s fashion editor....
...The fast food chain agreed to be bought by Thomas H. Lee Partners, a private equity group, for $619m in February. It had 40 days to look for better offers....
...But we can perhaps appreciate why Tony Blair used to commend Mr Brown by saying: “He is my Lloyd George.” It was a remark couched in a sort of fragile bravado....
...Who will be Britain’s George H.W. Bush? After one brutal presidential debate, he told a journalist: “I’m trying to forget the whole damn experience.”...
...Not least because the Brownites always used to undermine Tony Blair by maintaining that their man was CEO of UK plc while Blair was the show-boating chairman. The irony is palpable....
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