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...For Roderick Williams, baritone of inimitable good sense and evident sangfroid, the production of Gerald Barry’s opera The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2002 comes top of the...
...Baker’s remarks chimed with an attempt by DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr, which has failed to get off the ground, to pass a law requiring a supermajority for any border poll....
...“I have not faced such a distinguished audience since dining alone in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles,” he told a group of dignitaries when he was secretary of state....
...His father worked for the local oil company and his mother was a professional nurse and amateur baker who produced cakes for the entire community....
...During its heyday, Baldwin’s Saint-Paul home was a sanctuary for artists — especially black Americans in the twilight of their lives, from Miles Davis to Josephine Baker....
...district attorney’s office from 1992 to 2000 under the legendary Robert Morgenthau, where there was “no getting around doing the grunt work”, according to a contemporary, and where even John F Kennedy Jr...
...“I grew up in a world not different from Norma Jeane Baker, and my mother was about that age....
...Steve Baker This is an important moment for me personally because I can authentically say he’s done it. If only everybody will read the text. Think seriously about what an amazing achievement this is....
...Meanwhile, a disappointed biographer named William Jaybey is tasked by Godley Jr to write his father’s biography....
...Late in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr took a breather....
...Activist Robert “Bob” Moses was less well known than Martin Luther King Jr, but the New York maths teacher profoundly shaped the 20th-century movement to secure the civil rights of black Americans....
...“I think that the legacy of QAnon is that you’ve created this ready-made audience of people that are susceptible to conmen coming in and telling them what they want to hear,” says Rains....
...Our voters will never forget . . . ” Brad Parscale, Mr Trump’s former campaign manager, warned: “If you want to win 2024 as a Republican, I would probably start saying something.”...
...In 1995, local philanthropist Mitchell Wolfson Jr opened The Wolfsonian, a South Beach museum devoted to 19th and 20th-century objects and design....
...When we saw our favourite musicians get old, we just figured Al Green or Anita Baker had earned their stripes, that they were married with kids in some house near a river somewhere.”...
...Coordinating Committee, led by Ella Baker, which played a pivotal role in fuelling youth activism against racism in America....
...The series was devised in the late 1990s by British production company Astley Baker Davies and first aired in 2004, on Channel 5 and Nick Jr....
...“I am a conservative,” he once said, “but I am not a nut about it.” Our standards have fallen....
...In between, Dream Song by Daniel Kidane, lighting the fuse as the first of the 32 premieres, ambitiously aimed to mark two occasions by setting words from Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech...
...“Just as all the other negotiations have come a cropper, I would be sceptical of this one too,” said Rod Hunter, a partner at Baker McKenzie, the law firm, who worked on international economics in the George...
...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....
...My favourite quote in this book is Doyle’s confession: “Do you know, I don’t think I’ve ever been in Baker Street in my life.”...
...The late RW Apple Jr, a legendary New York Times correspondent, described Danes as having a mastery of form and colour that “turned sandwiches into still lifes”....
...“People keep asking me if I have a boyfriend. It’s quite a leap to go from that mentality to say ‘actually, I am gay’.”...
...(Vox) A frightfully British purge I say, Jeeves, this is a bad business....
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