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...“The reality of their rules of engagement and the way that responsibility evolves may mean that ultimately they don’t have perfect control over that fact,” the official said....
...“I’m hoping that if it doesn’t happen during this summit, it will happen shortly after,” he said....
...“[T]he Philippines has abandoned the current administration’s understanding with China on the Ren’ai Jiao issue,” a foreign ministry spokesperson said....
...But they’re a little bit caught, because they don’t want to outright lie.”...
...I wasn’t academic. I didn’t know about art, who Basquiat was. But I had begun to understand the direct impact of a visual image,” he says....
...“Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair was the first movie that I ever designed clothes for....
...“Emily [Blunt] is a best friend – and [Robert] Downey [Jr],” he says of the “surrogate family” who have been with him throughout. “I couldn’t have got through it without them....
...That wind just won’t quit....
...“I don’t have any illusions about the transformative power of art. Pictures don’t do anything. People do things. You can make pictures that anger, upset, inspire. But they’re not a catalyst.”...
...“This isn’t a fancy party.”...
...Following a brief first marriage, she wedded William McCormick Blair Jr, the former US ambassador to Denmark, in 1961....
...“No, I won’t,” he says. “I said what I had to say.”...
...US, president Joe Biden welcomes his Philippine counterpart Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr for a bilateral meeting at the White House....
...Pelosi, the only daughter of Maryland congressman Thomas D’Alesandro Jr, grew up in Baltimore’s Little Italy, where she was first exposed to the kind of bare-knuckle, ruthlessly effective politics that would...
...Crestview Partners co-founder Thomas Murphy Jr has joined Berkshire Hathaway’s board of directors....
...The cheery, can-do General Motors engineer Thomas Midgley Jr is often described as the most disastrous peaceable human who ever lived....
...Logsdail Jr took over the reins of Lisson in 2019, just as Covid-19 began to grip....
...One sizzling recent example was James Graham’s Best of Enemies at London’s Young Vic, which dramatised genuine debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr....
...This week it is the turn of the Philippines, where, in a “you could not make this up” moment, the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Ferdinand Jr, leads the race to be president, promising to restore...
...One of the most important chefs in American history is virtually unknown: James Hemings, brother of Sally Hemings, property of Thomas Jefferson....
...In the US, Thomas Tonatiuh Lopez Jr stands up to the oil companies trying to put pipelines across his state, Colorado....
...“Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments. They embrace them,” Biden said in remarks before the signing. “Great nations don’t walk away,” he added....
...His 1994 debut album Illmatic painted a picture of New York that was just as vivid and visceral as those of authors such as Paul Auster or Hubert Selby Jr, and was quickly acclaimed as a masterpiece....
...It is, according to its host, poet Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr, “about refusing to accept things as they are.”...
...As Thomas Jefferson wrote in another context “Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.”...
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