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...[Available for Premium subscribers] With his latest Al Capone act, Trump is testing the assumption that Americans don’t want a crook in the White House....
...His four words, “my memory is fine”, may not equate to Richard Nixon’s “I’m not a crook” but they could enter US political lore just the same....
...Victor Ryan Robertson deals ably with the high-lying tenor roles of Elijah Muhammad and Street, a petty crook....
...She considered telling the store’s highly respected owner, Seymour Holtzman, or the CEO, Robert Baumgardner....
...Fifty years ago, Sir Robert Mark arrived at Scotland Yard with the stated intention of “catching more crooks than we employ”. He rooted out hundreds of corrupt officers and set the Met on a new path....
...Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland will on Wednesday set out plans to tackle the “drivers of crime”....
...Ruaha National Park, Tanzania Sophy Roberts In September, I travelled to Tanzania and discovered a stowaway in my bag: a slim volume by the Japanese novelist, Junichiro Tanizaki....
...Fifty years ago the incoming head of the Metropolitan police, Robert Mark, defined a good police force as “one that catches more crooks than it employs”....
...he pleads with the slick-haired Gordon Gekko, having begun to discern, 90 minutes after the audience, that what looked like a master of the universe is a standard-issue crook....
...For much of Donald Trump’s time in office, the Russia investigation led by Robert Mueller hung over the White House, imperilling his presidency....
...The increase in new international schools is evidence of people’s confidence in the city’s future, says Charles Roberts of agent Fine & Country....
...But outside a well-stocked Sainsbury’s supermarket nearby, Peter Crooks was less critical, accepting it was hard to strike the right balance between worrying people and reassuring them over the outbreak....
...Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said there was “no evidence” that increasing the number of prison places reduced crime....
...Bloomberg columnist Clive Crook (a former FTer, like all brilliant people at other publications) was correct that central bank independence won’t survive Covid-19....
...“If you’re a big private company, you don’t have community links,” Ms Crook said. “You don’t know the local vicar who wants his churchyard cleaned up....
...Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, a charity, said the report made for “depressing reading”....
...We had princes and princesses, billionaires and Bond girls, comtessas and crooks, rock stars and a reprobate or two....
.... ★★★★★ If Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek twinkled any more brightly in The Old Man & the Gun you would need shades to watch it....
...Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the announcement, and previous moves to increase prison time for serious offenders, amounted to “penal populism”....
...The prospectus still left plenty of unanswered questions, as David Sheppard and Robert Smith noted in the Financial Times, including the company’s plans for future borrowings and dividend payments to the...
...Independent shale drillers in the US are facing pressure to either expand or be acquired, Robert Kaplan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, has said....
...Although Robert Mueller spelt out examples of obstruction of justice since 2017, the meat of his report was about alleged Russian collusion before Mr Trump took office....
...Thanks to David Roberts of Vox for pointing it out. There was also a terrific “bar chart race” video showing spending in world club football over the past 28 years....
...“Hindus are crooks and mischievous,” the young Khan told a friend. “They are dreaming of destroying Pakistan to create a united India.”...
...On Friday Senators Marco Rubio and Robert Menendez, members of the foreign relations committee, wrote a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting an investigation into the nuclear talks....
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