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...Additional reporting by William Sandlund in Hong Kong...
...Second, in 1971 Richard Nixon’s secretary of state, William Rogers, supported a political settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict, including withdrawal from territories occupied in the six-day war of 1967...
...Rogers lives next door to what was once the epicentre of Soho loucheness, the Groucho Club on Dean Street; a spot that he feels is now “having a bit of a renaissance”....
...William Zeckendorf Sr, who preceded Trump as New York’s flamboyant developer king, bought 40 Wall Street in 1959 for $18.15mn in an 87-round auction held in its 26th-floor Wall Street Club....
...Farris was born in 1927 into a middle-class family in Atlanta. She was the oldest child of Martin Luther King Sr, a Baptist preacher, and Alberta Williams, a teacher....
...said Jen Davis, a Missouri-based Keller Williams agent who coaches other realtors....
...His father, John Sr, also led the bank. John Weinberg’s cousin Peter Weinberg is a Goldman veteran who founded Perella Weinberg Partners....
...“It’s hard to imagine a group more well-positioned to push this up the commercialisation curve,” Rogers said....
...William Cohan, ‘The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co’ (2007) Favourite: Point of No Return, by John Marquand....
...“We’ve got watches which suit every wrist and every pocket from a first-time buy £50 watch up to a Roger Smith at £500,000, and almost everywhere in between,” he says....
...its former boss Sir Roger Hollis to Chapman Pincher of the Daily Express....
...His account of the history of the site takes in William the Conqueror, Henry VIII and William Pitt the Younger — who moved the docks there around 1800....
...“I came up with some proposals, more or less on the back of an envelope, and Roger Wright [chief executive of Britten Pears Arts, which runs the festival] said yes to all of them,” says Williams....
...In fact, when William Barton Rogers founded MIT in Boston in 1861, his role model was Warrington Academy in Cheshire....
...Since the retirements of Roger Federer and Serena Williams, tennis has been hoping some new superstars would emerge to help capture the imagination of fans around the globe....
...Roger Li, co-founder of One Satoshi, a crypto store that has nine Hong Kong branches, said the company’s overall trading volumes from January to May were about 20-25 per cent higher than over the same period...
...He also told CNBC that “I think we all felt safer with Trump as president than we do right now,” which is . . . a take. Alex Rogers and Ortenca Aliaj have the details....
...Sr Susan Francois, treasurer of the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace, a Roman Catholic order based in the US and UK, said that whether it was through project financing or general corporate lending, Citigroup...
...Jessica Cale is the glamorous-voiced Poppea and Martha Jones a firmly sung Nero, but the countertenor Ottone, Feargal Mostyn-Williams, is disappointing....
...Roger Ailes, the malign media genius who built Fox News for Murdoch and was pushed out in 2016 for sexual harassment, died a year later....
...Despite comments about youth differences in attitudes to Israel, it would be a brave politician in America to defy the lobby in a presidential election year.” — Hugh Williams...
...of a reputation that had often appeared, to William, to stretch seven continents”?...
...Roger Hayes, leader of the town hall’s Liberal Democrat group, said backlogs within the NHS were an issue on the doorstep....
...William Burrows, director of the Annuity Project, a free educational website, says: “As inflation is tamed, I expect annuity rates to drift downwards but I don’t expect this will happen suddenly....
...A richly detailed labour of love....
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