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...It is hard to recall a figure whose death has evoked more polarised reactions than that of Henry Kissinger....
...The coalition buying the team — Rubenstein, a Baltimore native, along with Ares Management chief Michael Arougheti and Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr. — wasn’t as surprising as the timing....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...Crestview Partners co-founder Thomas Murphy Jr has joined Berkshire Hathaway’s board of directors....
...You Don’t Know Us Negroes, a new collection of Hurston’s essays, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr and Genevieve West, demonstrates once again how ill suited she was to the role of a solemn and respectable...
...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...
...Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons, by Ben S Bernanke, Timothy F Geithner and Henry M Paulson Jr, Penguin, RRP$16/Profile, RRP£9.99 If what these three men did during the financial crisis...
...President Richard Nixon blamed his 1960 election defeat on then-chair William McChesney Martin Jr’s tight monetary policy, and later leaned heavily — and successfully — on Mr Burns to keep interest rates...
...“The best horses don’t always cost the most” said Richard Pugh, a director at auctioneers Tattersalls Ireland. “Take Minella Rocco....
...When Justice Henry Baldwin died in April 1844, it took 841 days before Robert Grier replaced him....
...In the late 1920s, the sons of the first President Roosevelt, Kermit and Teddy Jr, led an expedition to Sichuan to shoot a panda, which they skinned and sent to the Chicago Field Museum....
...Campaign advisers come and go by the hour, like Roger Stone, who earned his stripes for Richard Nixon....
...Hindmarch Founder, Anya Hindmarch Arnaud Massenet Founder and Director, Net a Porter; and CEO and Director, de-pury Group Arthur Kay Founder and CEO, Bio Bean Ben Drury Founder, 7Digital Ben Pugh...
...It uses hydroponics not aquaponics but has the same ultra-local credentials and the backing of Michelin-starred chef Michel Roux Jr. “GrowUp and Growing Underground are blazing a trail,” says Pugh....
...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’....
...Judging by some of the names Fashion East has launched in its 11 years – Jonathan Saunders, Gareth Pugh, Richard Nicoll and Henry Holland – they have been successful....
...As the war dragged on, Rumsfeld’s talents attracted the attention of Johnson’s successor Richard Nixon....
...Head of Richard Fuld. Stuffed and mounted on dartboard (private collection of Henry Paulson Jr.). Lightly pierced all over. (Estimate: $457m, including restricted stock). andrew.hill@ft.com...
...Military historians who have become household names in recent years include Richard Holmes and Anthony Beevor....
...Alexander Meigs Haig Jr was born on December 2 1924 in a Philadelphia suburb....
...He once told Henry Kissinger: “I scored 126,” eliciting the response, “Mr President, your golf is improving.” Nixon growled back: “I was bowling.”...
...Martin Luther King Jr.26. Pierre Trudeau, Canadian PM, 1968-79 27. Henry Ford 28. General Franco 29. Crazy Horse, hero of the Battle of Little Bighorn 30....
...Political friends of Obama who summer here include senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, attorney-general Eric Holder and Henry Louis Gates Jr, an old Harvard colleague who is a leading intellectual...
...Next we drop in at the party for the NGO Vital Voices and I say a few words, before we go on to the newly restored Smithsonian for a ball, hosted by the historian Henry Louis Gates Jr, for Root, an online...
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