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...He met Che Guevara; wrote LBJ’s famous “we shall overcome” civil rights speech, delivered to Congress just days after Martin Luther King marched in Selma; and organised McCarthy’s remarkable New Hampshire...
...“When I look at all the monuments around here,” she says, gesturing towards a new sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr, “I feel proud to be in Massachusetts.”...
...Odey was known for another predilection: hiring “earls and girls”....
...Established by Crispin Odey in 1991, the hedge fund firm was renowned for hiring “earls and girls” and for fund managers who brought shotguns to the office before dashing off on weekend shoots....
...But a revamp of the gallery has put Irish chef Richard Corrigan at the helm and, honestly, it might be the smartest thing they’ve ever done....
...Our plates are cleared and we decide to skip dessert, but Nolan orders more Earl Grey. I ask for an espresso....
...Crestview Partners co-founder Thomas Murphy Jr has joined Berkshire Hathaway’s board of directors....
...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....
...He’s got two Aston Martins — one in LA, one in London. He has “a couple” of properties....
...Here’s Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal. Richard BlumenthalWe’re here today because Facebook has shown us, once again, that it is incapable of holding itself accountable....
...Stoner was active in the Ku Klux Klan, described Adolf Hitler as “too moderate” and served as an attorney for James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr’s assassin....
...(FT) The day ahead Martin Luther King Day Stock markets and most banks in the US will be closed today in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day....
...Daniel Kidane’s Dream Song, quoting Martin Luther King Jr., could do with more urgency of utterance....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...(FT) March in Washington Rev Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders will mark the 57th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1963 March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial on Friday....
...Martin Luther King Jr called that act “a second emancipation”. But it had been achieved only at a price....
...Martin Luther King Jr pronounced it a “physician’s warning of approaching death, with a prescription for life” — but he was assassinated soon afterwards, before he could work to help America take the Kerner...
...Richard Portes: Yes. But neither needed now nor desirable....
...Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican, has said the trial would begin in earnest next Tuesday, following the Martin Luther King Jr Day holiday on Monday....
...Who’s who in Richard Avedon’s ‘The Family’ First row (left to right): Richard Kleindienst, former US attorney-general, Washington, DC, July 29 1976; James Skelly Wright, circuit judge, US Court of Appeals...
...Bill Rauch’s brisk staging nonetheless carries us along here as Johnson butts heads with Martin Luther King Jr....
...The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics and the Future of Work, by Richard Baldwin, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£20 This is a thought-provoking book by a leading expert on world trade....
...After the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, Rostgaard created his recognisable image of a roaring panther with red eyes....
...Luther King Jr and Nelson Mandela....
...The one artist I whose work I would collect if I could is Richard Serra....
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