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...George W Bush missed red flags in the build-up to al-Qaeda’s Twin Towers attacks. But he was only once explicitly warned of a possible plot a few weeks before it happened....
...In a recent University of Antwerp survey, half said Belgium had done more good than bad in Congo....
...Only at Oxford did they acquire the qualities that Johnson et al already had: a ruling-class accent, rhetorical skills and the ability to feel confident in any establishment setting....
...In 1935, King George V made Buchan, henceforth Lord Tweedsmuir, governor-general of Canada, a position that enabled him to indulge his love of the outdoors and develop an important friendship with President...
...Last week marked the 19th anniversary of one such event: the landmark Supreme Court decision handing the US presidency to George W Bush over Al Gore....
...Thus the CBI, Airbus et al are either ignorant or deceitful; you can take your pick.”...
...James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington et al were politicians long before presidents shouted in all caps from Twitter accounts....
...I meet Yellen at Al Tiramisu, an unpretentious Italian restaurant in north-west Washington DC that is popular with local diplomats....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...One notable forecast came out too, via the Washington Post. It was from Allan Lichtman, a professor at American University who has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984....
...“What you’re going to end up with is fewer theatres,” George Lucas said during a panel at the University of Southern California in 2013. “Bigger theatres, with a lot of nice things....
...However, in a high-profile speech at the National Defense University in Washington, Mr Obama also outlined elements of a new rule book that is likely to result in a reduction in numbers of targeted killings...
...Murad al-Azzany, a professor at Sana’a University, said that not just activists but the wider Yemeni public were against the strikes, because of the levels of civilian casualties....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...At first, the president stressed above all the need to prevent Afghanistan from reverting to an al-Qaeda base and further destabilising neighbouring Pakistan....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
...Debating with Al Gore in the presidential election eight years ago, George W. Bush defined a new, humbler attitude towards the rest of the world....
...CIC’s disastrous investments in Blackstone and Morgan Stanley have made him the target of criticism. 32: George Soros, 78 Founder of Soros Fund Management and Open Society Foundation For the hedge fund...
...This appears a common state of mind in current rightwing circles, viz Limbaugh, O’Reilly et al. An honourable man would have resigned by now....
.... —————————————————————————————- Is it true that the Iraq war is essentially the implementation of a grand strategy first published in an American Enterprise Institute paper by Richard Perle et al?...
...Critics point to Bush v. Gore, the ruling in December 2000, which resolved the disputed election between George W. Bush and Al Gore in favour of President Bush....
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