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...The well-funded political scion Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Green party’s Jill Stein, and progressive activist Cornel West are still in the mix, with the potential to attract protest votes....
...yells the American writer Walter Isaacson, straining to be heard above the cacophony....
...“Democrats are betting that Biden’s age will be less of a liability when contrasted with a GOP that they will cast as captive to Maga,” says Amy Walter, publisher of the non-partisan Cook Political Report...
...ideas Last month, Biden travelled to Atlanta to become the first sitting president to deliver the Sunday sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual base of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr...
...In a dim room, Walter Cronkite’s tearful announcement plays on one wall, while mournful magazine covers line up along another....
...By combining ingredients from Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker and Brian Aldiss’s Hothouse and adding a dash of Walter M Miller Jr’s A Canticle For Leibowitz, Carey serves up an intriguing new fusion, but...
...On a more ambivalent note, economist and habitual gloomster James Rickards tallies up the winners and losers of a post-pandemic world in The New Great Depression (Portfolio, January)....
...1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm Workers, Keene, California, June 27 1976; Charles Shaffer, attorney, New York, July 9 1976; Herbert J Miller Jr...
...In the TV series Dallas, what was the name of JR’s second wife?...
...Also at the meeting were Donald Trump Jr, the president’s son, and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law....
...At that moment a text from a friend came through on my phone: “Did Henry James definitely never have sex?” “Um …can we speak later? It’s a bit complicated,” I texted back....
...Winston’s brother, William Jr, re-entered the operation....
...You would never realise from Strachey’s account how big an outcry John Gibson Lockhart caused with his life of Walter Scott after 1838, nor the controversy that greeted James Anthony Froude’s study of the...
...In 1919, the young EB White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr....
...Jo then moved to Laurel after Arthur died of cancer in 1972 and got remarried, to a man called James Brantley....
...Arcandor said talks were constructive while Walter Otremba, deputy economics minister, said that all parties were “ready to contribute”....
...CATCHING LIFE BY THE THROAT: How to Read Poetry and Why by Josephine Hart Time Warner ₤15.99 For all ages, this compilation features eight of the best-known modern poets, including Auden, Larkin and Emily...
...James, Chicago Glenn Hubbard: As the global economy develops, there will be (and should be) many prominent financial centres....
...Walter Winchell 34. The 9/11 Commission 35. A social phobia 36....
...She is excellent on his literary context: not only his well-known friendship and rivalry with Henry James but also his impact on Kipling, Galsworthy and Conrad....
..."It is a mystery," says Arthur Schlesinger Jr, the eminent historian who has seen the cycles of American history give way, for now, to an entrenched equilibrium. "45 per cent of the electorate loves Bush...
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