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...It is a corner of the state renowned for bare-knuckle politics, local potentates and a history of public corruption that makes even hardened New Jerseyans shake their heads....
...H2O’s first year was a white-knuckle ride, after a bet on Greek government bonds racked up losses....
...The pub’s reputation for staging bare-knuckle prize fights in the 19th century earned it the nickname “The Bucket of Blood”....
...A fortuitous meeting with wine importers Tom Beattie and Francis Roberts got him a basement kitchen at Cadet and the rest will be history....
...I started at Alexandra Palace and walked the path to its original end in Islington, stopping for a delicious lunch at The Dusty Knuckle café in Harringay, and taking in the Woodberry Wetlands nature reserve...
...One freestanding bookshelf holds 4,500 volumes that belonged to the late Slavic studies scholar Robert Bird....
...At the auction that day, WGCZ’s representative was Robert Seifert. Kelly remembers that Robert wore baggy jeans and a T-shirt with holes....
...And Robert is holding Nick Timothy and Julian Smith, although I think he probably does get some kudos for having sold Nadine Dorries early....
...At the same time, his business has not shied away from bare-knuckle fights with delinquent companies or rival creditors....
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...Based on a jaw-dropping true story, it concerns Harry Haft, a Polish Jew interned in Auschwitz who was recruited as a bare-knuckle boxer by the Nazis and forced to fight his fellow inmates to the death....
...But his style is singular and idiosyncratic — he wears multiple knuckle-duster rings himself, and often festoons his neck with chains and pendants....
...This turned out to be a working-class Wharton graduate from Monticello named Robert Kapito. But when Rosh Hashana arrived, it emerged that Kapito was as Jewish as the rest of the desk....
...But even Foster could not fulfil the brief for another Sherlock Holmes — the knuckle-dusting 2009 version directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr....
...Other notable business reads include The World for Sale (Random House Business, February) in which Javier Blas and Jack Farchy probe the hard-knuckle and secretive world of commodity trading....
...With a fine and a rap on the knuckles for partner David Roberts, it has descended to the ranks of the rest. Technically....
...Optimum Brasses was founded in the early 1980s by Robert Byles, an antique dealer who has been collecting brass fittings from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries for decades....
...So although it's a white-knuckle ride for everybody else, the prime minister thinks that the closer she takes us to the edge, the more chance she has of getting a deal....
...It’s a tale of movie giants, from stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway to writer Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski....
...But Brexit is in a parliamentary holding pattern, as Robert Shrimsley writes....
...“You’ve got some markets that do have a very high supply,” says Robert Duncan, a Numis analyst. “When the term ends, you’ve got ghost towns, tumble weed blowing down the streets”....
...Squashing the complacency of Robert Bolt, her first playwright protégé, at the height of his success as a screenwriter (his credits included Dr Zhivago, Ryan’s Daughter, A Man For All Seasons and Lawrence...
...Even a bare-knuckle prizefighter who’s been ko’d in all of his last 20 fights must have teeth like Robert Redford....
...Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s leader, is another forceful shaker, as is Vladimir Putin, who combines a “very, very firm” grip with a piercing stare....
...“It’s all about seat numbers,” said Sir Jeffrey, as he headed down another road where more doors awaited his knuckles....
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