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...Alan Boswell, project director for the Horn of Africa at Crisis Group, said there were no good outcomes to a war that had reignited ethnic violence, including in Darfur....
...voice trailing off, recalling clashes between soldiers from the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces — the army of Africa’s youngest country — and rebels loyal to the National Salvation Front of commander Thomas...
...I also want him to dish the dirt on Thomas Edison, who did similar things and ended up filthy rich....
...Both give assured performances, and director Boswell keeps the countdown ticking smoothly....
...James Boswell recounts an incident that captures this orthodoxy in his The Life of Samuel Johnson....
...An entrepreneurial small businessman called Thomas Sharpe purchased the wood of the mulberry and started making souvenirs from it....
...Furthermore, it stared straight into the face of St James’s Palace, as though the slimy politician were trying to eclipse the king, Thomas Wolsey-style....
...The usual suspects are all here: Boswell and Johnson, Wordsworth, De Quincey and Dickens (who concludes the book; there are hints at a sequel)....
...From James Boswell to Gordon Brown, Scots in London have often been successful. And these are only the ones you hear about....
...But in the life and writings of David Livingstone, the explorer and missionary, and Thomas Carlyle, was also embodied the fierceness of the anti-materialist Christian conscience....
...But, as Thomas Boswell, the Washington Post’s excellent sports columnist, puts it: “The NFL doesn’t have a PR problem. It has a reality problem. And it may be a grave one....
...The sports pages were once almost a literary adornment, providing real insight into the games people play, but now only Thomas Boswell survives....
...Thomas Pickering, the veteran diplomat who led the inquiry, said that responsibility for the security shortcomings belonged at a level below Mrs Clinton’s office....
...According to this crude tripartite map, Samuel Johnson’s Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744) was the first true example of a form that ripened swiftly in 1791 with Boswell’s monumental study of Johnson himself...
...Washington Post writer Thomas Boswell testified to the grip baseball has on the American psyche with a book titled Why Time Begins on Opening Day. On that basis, time begins twice in 2012....
...The federal budget should be a tool to encourage national investment, as it was when Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana and when Dwight Eisenhower built our super- highways....
...Perhaps it was the opium talking, but Thomas de Quincey once wrote that an evening in the company of Samuel Coleridge was “like some great river”....
...Sue Thomas runs it with great charm and humour, while chef Carlos Leite offers excellent food using locally sourced ingredients....
...In Britain it is spearheaded by Lords Roper and Dubs, and by MPs Andrew Dismore, Chris Ruane and Tim Boswell; and in Portugal by Jaime Gama, the president of the parliament, and Jose Ribeiro e Castro, the...
...Thomas Boswell, the American sportswriter, called one of his books Why Time Begins on Opening Day, which neatly grasped the truth that certain moments in the sporting year are inherently dramatic....
...Earning improbable comparisons with both Homer’s Odyssey and Boswell’s Life of Johnson, The Savage Detectives was a joyous yet grimy epic of two poets’ quest for information about an elusive female poet....
...After a heroic voyage of more than 3,000 miles round the Australian coast and up to the island of Timor, the survivors were caught and repatriated to Newgate jail (from which James Boswell bailed them out...
...Fores and Thomas Tegg brings lost figures vividly to light....
...“USA Basketball can’t pretend that continual defeats in international tournaments don’t damage our image as basketball’s dominant country,” wrote Thomas Boswell in the Washington Post last week, and added...
...Although one would also want to note that the process was not linear (Anthony Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses, 1691-92, was well researched), it is no coincidence that the archetype of the modern biography, James Boswell...
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