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...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, has entered his candidacy to run as president, most likely on a ticket with Sara Duterte....
...Sixteen-year-old rising star Zoie Brogdon’s love of riding was nurtured by a summer camp run by the Compton Cowboys, an off-shoot of the legendary Compton Jr Posse from the city south of Los Angeles....
...The border... we talked about the border wall and how I thought that this was going to drive Hispanics into Biden's camp. McAllen, Texas went 20 per cent shift towards Trump....
...It was the 1970s and, heavily influenced by glam rock, Street adopted a flamboyantly camp persona complete with peroxide hair and lurid make-up....
...Ian Paisley Jr, a Democratic Unionist MP, said simply: “No surrender.”...
...“[Prime buyers] and developers were all holding off on everything,” says Richard Hardie of Knight Frank’s Cape Town office, who notes that the number of prime home sales fell sharply in the period following...
...Robert Wann Jr has been hired by law firm Baker Botts as a partner in its corporate practice in New York. Wann joins from White & Case....
...The revelations about Mr Papadopoulos recall the Trump camp’s shifting stories about a 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer, attended by Mr Manafort, Donald Trump Jr, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law...
...The Trump camp seized on the admission. The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr, said it was clear evidence his father was right about leaking aimed at undermining his administration....
...Vancouver and Toronto, hotbeds of Canadian ice hockey, became the focus of his recruitment drive and hosted development camps in the summer for Chinese-Canadian players....
...Campaign advisers come and go by the hour, like Roger Stone, who earned his stripes for Richard Nixon....
...That’s about it for this JR. We never meet the historical, many-sided Ruskin....
...Richard Nixon played a clever — and more realistic — game of poker with the Soviets, chiefly by coaxing China into the US camp....
...In this, those familiar with the funds say, he was less influential than his older brother, David Jr, who is considered the leading chip off the old block....
...Richard Dawkins is one of a number of scientists and rationalists who are contemptuous about the prize: he wrote in The God Delusion (2006) that it tends to go to “a scientist who is prepared to say something...
...at the Pentagon on Monday to deliver a more stringent assessment, writes Richard McGregor....
...Richard Nixon was a regular guest, while Ronald and Nancy Reagan spent every New Year’s eve there during Mr Reagan’s years in office....
...He was no better with race, for example dismissing Richard Attenborough’s film about Gandhi as ‘a lot of fucking bollocks about an emaciated coon’....
...As he boasted, drunk, to journalists afterwards: “I’d like to say that my name is Benjamin Sinclair Johnson Jr, and this world record will last 50 years, maybe 100.”...
...This time round an unlikely racial tension is simmering within the Democratic camp....
...When Cynthia McKinney speaks the words of Martin Luther King Jr, they resound through the church with some of King’s cadence....
...Emma Everett Our hearts and tears are with you, as well as admiration for your bravery. Jane Herbst, Virginia, USA...
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