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...Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s current prime minister, has reminded western audiences of the mass civilian deaths caused by the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945....
...‘We’ve gone 80 years backwards’ The grim mood is palpable among Israeli Jews of all political shades in a society that has veered ever more to the right over the past 15 years as Prime Minister Benjamin...
...The Middle East has been such a feature of US foreign policy in recent decades that we tend to forget that presidents from Truman to Nixon paid little attention to the region....
...Yet Harry Truman, Dean Acheson and George Marshall built after 1945 the most powerful alliance system the world has ever seen....
...Reagan was taller than Carter, Nixon was taller than Humphrey, Kennedy was taller than Nixon, Truman taller than Dewey. Lyndon Johnson was taller than pretty much everyone....
...Nell Benjamin and Jeff Richmond’s numbers similarly sound a bit innocuous and tend to lean too heavily on a single lyric....
...My style icon is the young Truman Capote – his nipped-in suits were very snappy and I’ve always thought he looked ultra-cool....
...If the agency does not have the president’s ear, it is, to quote Benjamin Disraeli, an exhausted volcano....
...theotherartfair.com Moniker October 6-9 Truman Brewery More urban and more “poppy” than most art week options, Moniker shares a space with The Other Art Fair in Truman Brewery....
...Benjamin Rhodes, Mr Obama’s deputy national security adviser, has made clear that the Hiroshima visit will not feature any apologies....
...The Met show nods along with both Capote and Benjamin....
...A 1930s gem, the Ivy’s cosy interior is panelled in wood, with “Truman” traced in gold lettering around the bar, the livery of east London’s Truman Brewery who built the “improved public house” between the...
...Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, by Paul Kildea, Allen Lane, RRP£30 Kildea has done everyone a service by refusing to allow moral judgments to cloud his biographical brief....
...The Model Couple (1976) anticipated The Truman Show and attacked the state’s invasion of privacy....
...Perhaps he will surprise us and announce that Benjamin Netanyahu is seizing the initiative and will take the lead in recognising Palestine in September....
...This was a path mapped by Roosevelt and Truman. Mr Obama has persuaded Russia to abandon the truculent victimhood that marked Vladimir Putin’s presidency....
...These include Lael Brainard, another former Clinton official, who is tipped to be nominated as the senior international official at the Treasury and Daniel Benjamin, who will head up the counter-terrorist...
...“It was almost like he found a god,” said Truman Wood, his housemate....
...“US presidents used to write books, play golf and get sent to funerals,” says Benjamin Hufbauer, associate professor at the University of Louisville....
...The latter’s portrait of the grandsons of the nation’s richest brewer, Sir Benjamin Truman, shows them building a playing-card house on the steps of a garden folly....
...On the face of it, the election of hard-line Hamas in the Palestinian territories ought to have benefited the right-wingers of Likud, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, in Israel, yet he is languishing....
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