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...Diana swats a hand at her husband. In the years that followed, the horses reclaimed their mantle and Green didn’t stop coming up with events....
...But if you’re really unlucky, you might get shot by your captors and the SWAT team that has been deployed to rescue you. As hostages go, Hong Kong is very unlucky indeed....
...Born into a Pashtun family in the Swat valley, she began speaking out on the issue when she was 10....
...Colombian officials were also quick to swat down the idea that the US was getting ready to mass troops for a Venezuelan invasion across its border....
...“If a single wasp comes after you, you can swat it. If 100 come for you, then you run away.”...
...In Swat, Khaplu, Hunza and Skardu, William Dalrymple stayed as a guest of Serena Hotels (serenahotels.com; doubles from $150), a network of properties part-owned by the not-for-profit Aga Khan Foundation...
...Two expansive 19th-century rooms were refurbished by the architects Stanton Williams....
...Tharoor convincingly demolishes some of the more persistent myths about Britain’s supposedly civilising mission in India, echoing William Dalrymple’s laments over the looting of the country by the East India...
...Mrs May wanted the authority to swat aside those who might reject any compromises struck along the way. After last week’s reverse, she has to think again....
...Rather, divisions within the MK epitomise a crisis engulfing the ANC as scandal-prone Mr Zuma defiantly swats away mounting calls for him to step aside for the sake of the party that has dominated politics...
...On the same day, Bonhams flourishes an impressive early self-portrait by Lely’s homegrown contemporary William Dobson (£200,000-£300,00)....
...Pakistan, by Peter Oborne, Simon & Schuster, RRP£10.99 When Pakistan was created in 1947, cricket was a game for the middle classes in Karachi and Lahore; today it is played in the remote, conflict-torn Swat...
...Harding, the 29th President of the United States, would be disgraced after his sudden death by the revelation of scandal after scandal in his government; William Hale Thompson was the mayor of Chicago who...
...The book’s starting point is the 2008 suggestion by Rowan Williams, then Archbishop of Canterbury, that accommodation between English law and sharia was “inevitable”....
...“If the action in Swat is not evidence of our seriousness, then what else is required?” said one official....
...But weighing 350lbs never deterred William Howard Taft, whose swing, according to Don van Natta Jr, author of Hail to the Cheats, “resembled a sumo wrestler trying to swat a gnat”....
...With a whiplash swat, he took down a fly that had the cheek to buzz him during a television interview....
...William Dalrymple on the subcontinent’s new stars Something remarkable is happening in Pakistani writing....
...Mr Tornqvist swats aside that assertion as “baseless and nonsense”, even as he confirms the company has a third shareholder whose name he cannot reveal....
...Beginning in early colonial America with the Massachusetts Bay Colony and concluding with President William McKinley’s reluctant intervention in Cuba in the US-Spanish war of 1898, Kagan swats the myth that...
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