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...The first two bonds, in Ghana and Sierra Leone, could start as soon as next year....
...Sir Ronald became chairman and Mr O’Donohoe chief executive....
...In 1997, he hammered and welded sheets of bronze into a huge, curving totem outside the Ronald Reagan Building....
...Ronald Reagan charms and blarneys his way through The Reagan Show, which recounts his eight-year presidency in under 80 minutes of archive clips....
...“You’d be surprised,” Ronald Reagan famously remarked after his first presidential trip to Latin America in 1982. “They’re all different countries.” And indeed they are....
...What is Sierra looking at?...
...Ostrich’s creator, Sierra Leonean émigré Asadata Dafora, was one of the first choreographers to fashion African communal and ritual dances for the stage....
...Kennedy Memorial Award for his coverage of the civil war in Sierra Leone, as well as the Overseas Press Club Award for international magazine writing....
...Sierra Leone was the perfect place to try this, and it still is....
...Alongside the well-publicised UN peacekeeping failures, there have been many quiet successes – Cambodia, Namibia, Sierra Leone and Nepal, to name a few....
...Higonnet’s entertaining subjects range from Isabella Stewart Gardner to the de Menils and Ronald Lauder....
...Both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher favoured growth over greenery. Mrs Thatcher hailed “the great car-owning democracy” and Reagan mused that trees were a major source of pollution....
...The conflict has been successfully covered up by the market fundamentalist ideology which gained the upper hand in the 1980’s during Ronald Reagan’s presidency....
...Leone diamond, which weighed 970 carats uncut and prompted the Sierra Leone government to issue a Winston stamp....
...You’ll kick yourself or someone else if you miss James Turrell’s “Three Gems” skyscape, in the garden, or Chiura Obata’s mesmeric “Lake Basin in High Sierra” in the Barbara Bohannon Carleton room....
...Some reporters were allowed into the Ronald Reagan Building so they could describe the scene. But they were not allowed to interview any of the guests....
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