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...Recommended reading I thought Thomas Friedman made a good case for a new “Biden Doctrine” in the Middle East. I just finished reading Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise, which is a true masterpiece....
...Quite literally so, as the six-day event was graced with appearances from plenty of A-list actors, including Rosamund Pike at Molly Goddard, Kristin Scott Thomas at Erdem, and Minnie Driver at JW Anderson...
...Four days later, in Munich, Heinrich’s niece (and Thomas Mann’s daughter) Erika staged her satirical “Peppermill” cabaret....
...Harry S Truman was returned to office in 1948, though it was a close-run election (and the Chicago Tribune famously miscalled it for Thomas Dewey)....
...Blair, a Warhol muse and one of Truman Capote’s swans, hosted fundraisers as successful as they were stylish. Among her circle were Hubert de Givenchy, Cecil Beaton and Helmut Newton....
...US President Harry Truman pleaded: “Give me a one-handed economist. All my economists say ‘on the one hand . . .’, then ‘but on the other . . .’”...
...(A host of novelists, from James Joyce to Truman Capote and Edith Wharton, also wrote in bed.) Even if you aren’t, there is another reason it might pay to ponder this ritual: brain science....
...A partnership of trust and respect — such as that between George HW Bush and James Baker, or Thomas Jefferson and James Madison — is invaluable....
...“He was a genuine statesman — a man of personal courage and rectitude,” said American economist Ted Truman, who served under Mr Volcker in the 1980s as the Fed’s director of the division of international...
...With development almost complete and a clutch of deposits already in the can, the ARC Vector’s designer Mark Truman is optimistic that he will be able to put the British-built bike into full production....
...Thomas Ross, president of the Volcker Alliance, said: “Paul A. Volcker was a giant among American public servants....
...In a strangely overlooked recent paper, French economist Thomas Piketty — famous for his 2013 tome Capital in the Twenty-First Century — anatomises the rival elites in the US, UK and France....
...The resurrected Truman’s now has an annual turnover of £5m, with a 50-strong workforce....
...The “golden era” of postwar America with its baby boom and world dominance is viewed as the creation of Harry “no experiments” Truman and Dwight “limited government” Eisenhower....
...Perkins worked with a number of famed American writers, such as Marjorie Rawlings, F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe....
...So did JPMorgan head Thomas Lamont, who recalled that he “almost went down on my knees to beg Herbert Hoover to veto the asinine Hawley-Smoot tariff....
...More poignant is his description of stubborn Harry Randall Truman, who lost his life in the eruption of Mount St Helens in 1980 after refusing to evacuate his home of 54 years at the foot of the volcano...
...Nicholas Burns, who was US ambassador to Nato on 9/11, described it as a “major mistake”, noting on Twitter that “every US president since Truman” had pledged support for Article 5....
...Mr McGahn was an unlikely choice for a White House job that often has been filled by establishment icons such as Clark Clifford, who advised Democratic presidents from Harry Truman to Jimmy Carter....
...Nicholas Burns, who was US ambassador to Nato on 9/11, described it as a “major mistake”, noting on Twitter that “every US president since Truman” has pledged support for Article 5....
...At times The Wing veers into caricature, making me feel like I’m living in a chic feminist version of The Truman Show....
...The most famous example of a shock US election result remains Harry Truman’s 1948 win over Thomas Dewey, memorialised in a photo of Mr Truman holding a newspaper whose headline erroneously gave the victory...
...This system has forged champions such as Mark Cavendish, Geraint Thomas and Lizzie Armitstead....
...Thomas Jefferson believed in “a natural aristocracy among men”, the grounds for which “are virtue and talents”: one of the proofs Van Reybrouck adduces that the venerated founders sought a reconstructed...
...“For the foreseeable future, the US-UK special relationship is irrelevant,” says Thomas Wright, a Brookings scholar of foreign policy....
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