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...The new president of the United States Conference of Mayors, Suarez, who was re-elected mayor of Miami last year with 79 per cent of the vote, is a Republican....
...When the Iran-Contra story finally broke late in 1986, Powell had been in Germany for less than six months, now with three stars and in command of the 75,000 strong V corps, having skipped the normal intermediary...
...Madeleine Albright, who served as the first female US secretary of state under Bill Clinton, wrote a memoir entitled Read My Pins, about how she deployed her extensive brooch collection in her diplomatic...
...Sebastian and I met in Medellín in 1974, as he reached the city having walked the length of South America from Tierra del Fuego. His goal was Alaska....
...With the new threat to sue from a coalition of US states, it’s going to be a tough call to make for the US regulator. DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...“America is a country of immigrants, whatever the rhetoric coming from politics.”...
...Johnson also says that using it to observe colliding neutron stars, a star so compact that a teaspoon of the substance from which it is made weighs millions of tonnes, has enabled scientists to see gold...
...John Browne, the former chief executive of BP, began his career at the end of the 1960s mapping oil reservoirs in Alaska using a computer that was the state of the art at the time....
...Nearly one in three housing units added in the US this century were in counties adjacent to the shoreline in states such as Texas, Florida and North Carolina, according to the National Ocean Economics Program...
...According to the most recent state figures, 40 per cent of foreign tourists to Alaska in autumn or winter come from Japan (Europe as a whole sent only 31 per cent)....
...(WSJ) Trump’s mafia links A look at Felix Sater, the Russian-born businessman and ex-convict who was a business associate of the former reality TV star, points to one of the many reasons Trump may not want...
...(fivethirtyeight) Number of the day 61%–25% Clinton’s share of the vote v Trump’s share, among millennials, according to a new Harvard poll....
...The big screen glamorises — its stars are the stuff of myth; the small screen is more like a member of the family....
...coast of Alaska....
...He gave me plans to build my own two-seater and I dreamt of paddling up the British Columbian coast to Alaska, perhaps even as far as Glacier Bay....
...Royal Dutch Shell has spent about $6bn on its hunt for oil off the north coast of Alaska, and has not yet managed to finish a single well....
...At about the same time, a drilling rig will leave Singapore for the remote Chukchi Sea, northwest of Alaska....
...On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard a case called Bank of America v Caulkett that has big implications for the US housing market....
...Quality Veal Corp. The city of words and fading signs that surrounds the site of the new Whitney Museum is meaty, writes Edwin Heathcote....
...Ukip said its housing policies would include the development of 1m homes on brownfield land....
...build affordable housing rental units....
...Delicate as the slender stalks are, they forge critical armour for the 3.5m cubic yards of sand that is being spread on the beach by the US Army Corps of Engineers....
...multimedia items including a video of America’s Got Talent star Jimmy Rose singing “Coal Keeps The Lights On”....
...A few weeks ago, for example, it bought the Alaskan properties of Pioneer Natural Resources in partnership with Caelus Energy Alaska; assets that rival bidders were discouraged by because of the poor weather...
...He joins Kenneth Feinberg, a lawyer who specializes in compensation claims for victims of disasters, and Anton R. Valukas, a former United States attorney who is conducting an internal investigation.”...
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