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...April 5 to 14; further information and tickets here Miami-Dade CountryFest, Ronald Reagan Equestrian Center, Tropical Park Two days of livestock shows, rodeo, music and food....
...It all makes writing a biography difficult enough, but as Ronald Hutton points out in The Making of Oliver Cromwell, there are further problems....
...Frank Aquila, global head of M&A at law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, agreed. “GE has finally found the key to unlocking the remaining value for its shareholders,” he said....
...According to Bloomberg, this was sold by the billionaire businessman Ronald Perelman, who also offered works at the Christie’s livestream sale....
...overall this year, but the environmental, social and “political” initiatives that made it on the ballot received a record amount of support, according to a review of the 2019 proxy season from Sullivan & Cromwell...
...So too was Hilary Mantel’s historical drama Wolf Hall, with Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell, and Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser, directed by Richard Eyre and starring Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins....
...Republicans are striving to pass the first major overhaul of the US tax code since Ronald Reagan in 1986....
...Robert Lighthizer: The China-critical trade lawyer This will not be Mr Lighthizer’s first role in government, having served as a trade official under president Ronald Reagan....
...Their recent history had included Cromwell’s dictatorship at the end of the English civil war....
...Ronald Reagan’s way with saying outrageous things as though soothing a child was exactly the same....
...He is, as Clarendon said of Cromwell and the British historian David Chandler updated to Napoleon “a great bad man”. It is as wrong to dispute his greatness as his badness....
...Rothschild ate the omelettes he made her; the novelist Hilary Mantel, in 2007-08, speaks with measured elegance about the startling improvement in her health when writing about the rudely strong Thomas Cromwell...
...As Rodgin Cohen, 66, a lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell and a Wall Street doyen, says: “Bad people make good movies,” even if they are not entirely realistic....
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