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...When he wrote on his website, “I believe in the United States of America. I believe in a strong national defence....
...She stole glances through the swaying jungle of legs and bags and jackets at what looked like the same high cheekbones, cropped black hair, sharp shoulders, even the suit....
...And then, after two months of holding squares across the United States, Occupy was hit by the authorities....
...On a hot afternoon last September, Rickey Hawthorne walked out of the gates of the United States’ largest maximum-security prison for the last time....
...So, for the first hearing, I wore a black suit with a pinstripe, a black hat and a veil.”...
...From $1,099pp....
...Originally published in 2006 in two separate volumes, they are here united in one book. Collect it while you can....
...Electric power blackouts in North America—such as the one that shut down the northeast of the United States in 2003—and in Europe and Russia, generate worries about the reliability of electricity supply...
...To help me catch up, I ask her about the dazzling earrings, bracelet and long gold necklace she is wearing, all with matching white-and-grey mother-of-pearl....
...US$62.4m) as part of a series of sales that totalled HK$1.3bn (US$166m)....
...But the Tamil struggle for an independent state in Sri Lanka has been spearheaded by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – deemed by the west to be one of the world’s most sophisticated terrorist...
...Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States By Andrew Coe Oxford University Press, £15.99 The story of America’s love-hate relationship with Chinese food, from the first American...
...At the peak of his powers, in the 1930s, he was advertised as “The Wonderful Monarch of Mystery” and had performed for George V, George VI and Edward VII at Buckingham Palace; and for Presidents McKinley...
...Opts for tailored jackets in grey or black with a formal, double strand of pearls, and a full-skirted black satin dress with sheer organza top for events. Message: contemporary classic....
...So one T-shirt, which features red and white butterflies in the shape of Africa, buys three mosquito nets for families in that continent; another, with a black alphabet on a white V-neck, created by former...
...Ten years ago, if you’d said one of the most powerful people in the world would be a young, black woman, you’d be laughed off the planet....
...Their diversity is astonishing, with more than 1,500 species....
...The daughter, He Yong, has landed a job at the Ramada Pearl Hotel and even speaks a few words of English. Both mother and daughter have their mobile phones lying on the kitchen table....
...It has saturated white communities and is making inroads into black ones....
...Gladwell is quietly spoken and casually dressed in T-shirt and V-neck jumper....
...The United Auto Workers retirees outnumber the active union members nearly four to one....
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