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...This territory, Aldhouse-Green suggested with a flourish, might have been comparable in its remoteness to Arabia’s Empty Quarter travelled by Wilfred Thesiger in the 1940s....
...Wilfred Thesiger left the Empty Quarter of Arabia carrying what he called “the imprint of the desert”, and though this is no ordinary desert, it leaves an impression: a stilling of the mind....
...“Just as first world war poets like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon blew apart notions of honour and chivalry with irony and black humour, Plath dealt a similar blow to postwar gentility.”...
...He thinks the trajectory of Anna Nicole Smith’s life should have been reimagined in the play. “She should have survived and become president of the United States,” he says....
...Dame Janet Smith is probing the culture and practices at the BBC during the years he worked there....
...September 12 From Mr Roger Torns: UK tax debate needs to consider capital gains From Prof Wilfred Beckerman: No evidence for economic slowdown From Mr Mark Hudson: Tax rate cut risks losing ‘silent majority...
...Clive Stafford Smith, 51, founded in 1999 the charity Reprieve, which uses the law to enforce prisoners’ human rights....
...“We had a goal to basically undertake a bit of a living laboratory,” says Bob Krapfel, associate dean of the Smith school’s MBA and MS programmes....
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