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...Notable members Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton (US presidents), Salman Rushdie (novelist)....
...“It’s 190-plus countries, but it’s all about one man,” said Richard Gowan, UN expert at New York University, of this year’s general assembly, at which heads of state gather for meetings so intensely packed...
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...Additional reporting by Richard Waters in San Francisco...
...Much the same had happened with Midland Bank’s acquisition of Crocker National Bank of California and, on a smaller scale, with other British clearers....
...Ryan Crocker, ambassador in Baghdad in the Bush era, wrote a column recently saying that the US should re-engage with Iraq to stop it following Syria’s path to sectarian destruction....
...The market has also been affected by poor liquidity, which “feeds on itself”, said Com Crocker, head of Tips trading at RBS Securities....
...The reshuffle also includes the nomination of Ryan Crocker, George W....
...“He’s Betty Crocker, he’s Mickey Mouse, he’s the embodiment of the company, and for that reason the board of directors owes all of its constituents some very candid information about his prospects,” said...
...Disarmingly honest about personal matters, he confesses, for example, that he wrote his book with the assistance of the former FT journalist Richard Addis (once a novice Anglican monk)....
...Gen Petraeus and Mr Crocker faced an even tougher audience later before the Senate foreign relations committee, where several Republicans joined Democrats in questioning whether the Iraqi government was...
...I also want to take this opportunity to acknowledge Ryan Crocker, who recently completed his service as our Ambassador to Iraq. Throughout his career, Ryan always took on the toughest assignments....
...Reflecting growing Republican frustration over the war, Richard Lugar, the top Republican on the committee, said the White House needed a new strategy....
...But the Petraeus-Crocker report has given new life to grassroots anger against the war.”...
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