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...In his final year, the acquittal of the police officers who beat Rodney King and the ensuing riots in Los Angeles inspired him to pursue politics....
...From David Coombs, Corby, Northamptonshire, UK Space jaunts for the rich come with a climate cost / From Ronald Kaiserman, Wynnewood, PA, US Ozone damage was a topic Thatcher worried about / From Euan G...
...Only after 10 anxious minutes did the intense heat of re-entry break them apart, after which Gagarin felt as if he was trapped in a burning building while the g-forces made him 10 times his normal weight...
...Blue Origin claims its New Shepard rocket, which relies on liquid hydrogen rather than carbon-based fuel, is greener than VSS Unity, but this isn’t a fair comparison, said Eloise Marais, associate professor...
...In 1952, the reception given to Rodney Ackland’s play The Pink Room, about a Soho nightclub as the second world war ended, was so hostile that it effectively stopped his successful writing career dead....
...He eschewed the obvious crowd-pleasers, instead choosing sonatas such as the G major, Kk260, with its zany harmonies....
...“It came up over a coffee,” said Rodney Cook, Just Retirement’s chief executive, of how he came to discuss the idea with his opposite number at Partnership, Steve Groves....
...It’s also hard as I write this not to imagine his “bruv” Rodney pointing out that Ali G wasn’t a Londoner anyway: “He’s part of the West Staines Massif.” “I know that you plonker,” Del Boy would say....
...“L&G is one of the most-affected,” said Abid Hussain, of Société Générale....
...Mr Ferguson said the valuation had been arrived at after a year of discussion, but said that only the two largest external shareholders, Invesco and M & G had been consulted on the sale....
...Other early academic pioneers included Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke and John Hope Franklin – all Harvard graduates....
...He served his legal clerkship with William O Douglas, the illustrious liberal Supreme Court Justice and then went to work for Governor Edmund G “Pat” Brown, the architect of modern California whose son is...
...Rodney Calvert, managing director, Millbrook, the motoring development centre. Sara Carter, for services to women entrepreneurs. Jean Combes, for services to phenology....
...The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald. It’s in its own little universe. Which literary character most resembles you? John Shade in Nabokov’s Pale Fire....
...Rodney Ward, one of the longest-serving investment bankers at UBS and architect of its expansion in China, is to give up his full-time role....
...Shepard described it, is the most feted, and one wonders how irritated Shepard would be by the £75,000 price tag on a four-inch-square pen-and-ink sketch of Pooh and Christopher Robin; Cheaper bears are...
...Despite all the talk in the book of American authors such as Hemingway, Cercas also resembles two ex-patriate European novelists who settled in the UK: Joseph Conrad and W.G. Sebald....
...It also, in street argot, implies “rapport” - as in Rodney King’s “Can’t we all just get along?” Nelson George, a straight-talking black critic who disdains jargon, calls the term “schizophrenic”....
...Walter Eltis Patrick Evershed Nicholas Finney Sir Rocco Forte Gerald Frost Anthony Fuller Edmund Gartside Anthony Good Kit Hunter Gordon Sir Brian Goswell Sir Ronald Grierson W T J Griffin G...
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