Hints and tips:
...Bush and former UK prime minister Tony Blair....
...Since 2007, John Browne, Tony Hayward and Bernard Looney have all suffered defenestration. Looney left three months ago....
...Then, leaders such as US President George W Bush and Tony Blair, the UK prime minister, pushed the marginalised region to the top of the international agenda, he said....
...Both George W Bush and Barack Obama’s administrations obfuscated on Afghanistan....
...The luxurious property owned by Italy’s late former prime minister has hosted several world leaders including George W Bush, Tony Blair and Vladimir Putin. Here’s more on the lavish Villa Certosa....
...Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans (Torva/Henry Holt) Tony Hsieh turned Zappos, the Amazon-owned footwear etailer, into a case...
...In foreign policy, he won the gratitude of George W Bush, the US president, for defying domestic public opinion and sending Italian troops to Iraq after the US-led invasion of March 2003....
...and “Alone, Together” — two more bangers that predate the second George W Bush administration....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. First, the results of the poll in last week’s newsletter....
...George W Bush and Tony Blair went ahead anyway “to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger”. Dr John Doherty Medical Director, IAEA (1993 — 2008) Vienna, Austria...
...Watching the film Official Secrets would be a good memory jogger if people have forgotten how Tony Blair stood with George W Bush in sidelining the UN and how British insiders who knew the truth were silenced...
...Yet, in polite society, each of those names still carries far less stigma than George W Bush or Tony Blair do for the active debacle of the Iraq war....
...Like George W Bush on Iraq, Obama wasn’t much interested in the advice of regional experts....
...Tony Blair stepped in to de-escalate a dispute between Beijing and Washington that followed the capture of the crew of a US spy plane in April 2001, declassified cabinet papers show....
...After the war, he attended classes at the New School’s Dramatic Workshop, alongside Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis and Sydney Poitier, who became a life-long friend....
...Melvyn P Leffler ably examines these issues in this first scholarly history of President George W Bush’s decision to invade Iraq....
...The “road map” devised by Tony Blair and George W Bush in 2003 was never followed....
...One of the firm’s first calls went to Tony Fratto, a former spokesman for George W Bush’s administration who knew many of Fox’s stars, and who ran the Washington-based Hamilton Place Strategies, a communications...
...Others were re-elected long after the occupation soured (George W Bush and Tony Blair). But there was no systemic change....
...under George W Bush....
...Ian Bond, François Godement, Hanns W Maull and Volker Stanzel offer a penetrating analysis in this paper for the Paris-based Institut Montaigne tony.barber@ft.com...
...Bill Clinton and Tony Blair revelled in their status as two young leaders ushering in a new brand of centrist progressive politics on either side of the Atlantic....
...Job moves Tony Fratto, the founder of Hamilton Place Strategies (now called Penta Group) and a former senior Treasury official under George W Bush, is joining Goldman Sachs as a partner and global head...
...“You break it, you own it”, as the late Colin Powell told George W Bush before the invasion of Iraq. This possibility did not seem to cross the minds of Brexiters....
...After a long long lockdown, and it seems years of isolation, Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, clambered out of Middle-earth this week to discuss Scottish independence on primetime television...
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