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...Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Empire by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams (Cornerstone Press/Penguin Press) Sex and power were the abiding obsessions of the colourful media mogul Sumner...
...On assignment for the erstwhile Japanese men’s weekly Heibon Punch, editor Jirō Ishikawa and illustrator Yasuhiko Kobayashi stumbled upon copies of Stewart Brand’s counterculture bible, Whole Earth Catalog...
...From his interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, where Stewart methodically took the presenter and business network to task for their failings in the 2008 financial crisis, to his endless skewering of George W...
...ranch, dotted with period-style log-cabin structures, including the recently refurbished Vance Cabin, named after the original owners of the ranch (David Lauren wed Lauren Bush, a niece of president George W...
...Unscripted (Cornerstone Press/Penguin Press) by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams makes a worthy bid for Paramount founder Sumner Redstone to be considered Logan-worthy....
...Express (forerunner of the Train Bleu), the Sud Express, the Rome and Simplon Expresses — all part of that great narcotic conspiracy, with its cashmere blankets, pressed linen and soft illumination, the W-L...
...“We definitely have to be neutral,” Woodrow Wilson warned in September 1914, “since otherwise our mixed populations would wage war on each other.”...
...Thomas W Hodgkinson is a science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...In today’s world, the idea that “it doesn’t matter whether a country makes computer chips or potato chips,” a quip attributed to Michael Boskin, an economic adviser to George H.W....
...“We flew down to the ceremony in New York, and Martha Stewart presented it, but couldn’t pronounce our names. No one had heard of us....
...Two decades ago, George W Bush raised eyebrows when he claimed he had peered into Putin’s soul and found him trustworthy. That was surreal enough....
...In his opening remarks, Scott Stewart, Mississippi solicitor-general, argued that “when the constitution does not take sides on [an issue], it belongs to the people”....
...Even ones that don’t have big egos, like Jimmy Carter and George H W Bush, have a hard time adjusting to [civilian] life.”...
...Woodrow Wilson had been laid low by the Spanish flu in Paris, where he and other world leaders were negotiating the post-first world war settlement in Europe....
...It seems only yesterday that Washington’s friends saw George W Bush’s invasion of Iraq as a heedless demonstration of US military might....
...In response to A tale of two statues: “I read ‘A tale of two statues’ just after reading the detailed announcement of Princeton’s U-turn over the honouring of Woodrow Wilson....
...On April 24 1913, President Woodrow Wilson (overseen by Thomas Edison) flicked a switch and 80,000 lightbulbs fizzled alive to illuminate the Woolworth, so huge it required its own power plant....
...Letter in response to this article: Perot’s big part in an Iranian adventure / From Hugh Stewart, Edinburgh, UK...
...This was certainly true of Woodrow Wilson who waited until April 1917 to enter the first world war; Roosevelt zigged and zagged until the Pearl Harbor disaster finally made war with Japan inevitable in 1941...
...Letter in response to this article: New York is the loser from Amazon’s change of mind / From Roger W Kirby, Millbrook, NY, US...
...to jam sticks into the eyes of his critics and likes to do things that drive them crazy or upsets them, and some of his pardons do that,” said Peter Wehner, a former speech writer for president George W...
...Mr Stewart argues for a doubling of the Foreign Office’s budget to enable it to build up local expertise....
...Comey’s courage in opposing George W Bush’s illegal wiretapping is the best example of his zeal....
...Mr Gillespie, who also served as a White House counsellor to George W Bush, is expected to enjoy a significant financial advantage....
...It wasn’t just the year of other films waving the W-word in their titles: 20th Century Women , Certain Women . . ....
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