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...“At first, she was trying to find her stride while under intense public scrutiny, which I think was heightened because of gender and race,” says Anthony Coley, a former senior justice department official...
...So Florida is fascinating. We used to think of Florida, when we thought of it as a swing state, of being multiple states. Miami-Dade County, it was a solidly blue area....
...They look at Facebook’s past five years and its attempts — frequently belated, often ambiguous — to deal with the way that state actors (Russia et al), hoodlums (such as the Proud Boys), politicians (a list...
...Experts predict the Biden administration will try to implement a “course correction” in the US-Saudi relationship that stops short of personally sanctioning Prince Mohammed for the killing....
...“They’re in a kind of nihilist mode,” said Daniel Fried, a former US ambassador who said the state department had “taken a lot of body blows”....
...Visa has called off its deal to buy fintech start-up Plaid for $5.3bn after the US Department of Justice sued to block the transaction on antitrust grounds....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com Follow Robert Shrimsley with myFT and on Twitter Letter in response to this column: A global Britain needs an independent DfID / From Paul Murphy et al...
...“It’s one of the most consequential assassinations in the Middle East in years,” said Aaron David Miller, a former state department official now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace....
...Unlike Sondland et al, they did not buy their positions. Nor will most of them be able to monetise their experience when they leave government....
...Letter in response to this article: The UK’s next prime minister should back business, not bash it / From Ned Cranborne, et al...
...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 recent days, Brett McGurk, the top state department official in charge of defeating Isis, has also stepped down....
...Last week Brett McGurk, a top state department official, said that although the “end of the physical caliphate” was in sight, “nobody is declaring a mission accomplished”....
...His newly-appointed secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, visited Riyadh in April to push, in vain, for a compromise deal....
...– Navel gazing but important: Why the NYT (et al) should stop letting Google crawl its data. – “Click here to kill everyone” – Huh....
...In my day, it was Cronkite, Chancellor et al delivering the good news from Aix to Ghent with a sobriety that was impressive....
...(“Hafez al-Assad of Syria wasn’t a piece of cake, either.”)...
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...(Also see Ben Carson et al on black people.)...
...Icann is now introducing more than 1,000 new “generic top-level domains” – the last bits in an internet address – to go along with the familiar ones (.com, .edu, et al, and country endings such as .co.uk...
...departments of government or big companies, or even among staff at tourist sites....
...The secretary of state’s performances have won him some rave reviews in Washington....
...While always consumed by personal ambition and notions of greatness (he was an avid student of Lincoln, Churchill, Napoleon et al), he started musing about a legacy that would benefit his and all other children...
...Hilali, chairman of the political science department at the University of Peshawar in north-western Pakistan, said politics was also behind much of the conspiracy mongering....
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