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...Even ones that don’t have big egos, like Jimmy Carter and George H W Bush, have a hard time adjusting to [civilian] life.”...
...In 1995, local philanthropist Mitchell Wolfson Jr opened The Wolfsonian, a South Beach museum devoted to 19th and 20th-century objects and design....
...Losing The Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East, by Philip H Gordon, St Martin’s Press, RRP$29.99, 368 pages From Iran in 1953 to Libya in 2011, via Iraq in 2003 (as well as...
...The first concession message by a defeated candidate was in 1896, when William Jennings Bryan wired congratulations to William McKinley two days after the vote....
...Marsh, East Sussex, England Crossword 16,377: John Bevan, London; TF & JM Marshall, Scotland; Rae Seelig, London Polymath 1,057: Bridget Symeonides, Cyprus Crossword 16,371: Mr B Miller, Guernsey; Mr H...
...The most disconcerting aspect of the Brexit process remains the absence of what George H.W....
...Rockefeller Jr was persuaded to fund the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg by William Goodwin, a local rector who explained to the oil heir that “Williamsburg was the only city celebrated in connection...
...By contrast, Henry Kissinger is said under Richard Nixon to have excluded the secretary of state at the time, William Rogers, from decision-making....
...… Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain, by Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin, Routledge, RRP£14.99/$29.99 The first major academic study of the UK Independence party...
...… I Knew the Bride, by Hugo Williams, Faber, RRP£12.99 Speaking to us from the bar at the Savoy, a hospital ward or the kitchen sink, Williams gives us a selection of settings as meandering as his ideas...
...Few areas have changed as much as nearby H Street, which heads east from Union Station, near the Capitol....
...But like other predominantly African-American neighbourhoods, H Street was devastated by the nationwide riots following the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr....
...Their successors, John Major and George H.W. Bush, were not much less friendly as they fought the first Gulf war together....
...In 1926 a local clergyman, the Reverend W Goodwin, persuaded the philanthropist John D Rockefeller Jr to bankroll the restoration of the oldest and most vulnerable buildings in the colonial capital of Williamsburg...
...I first learnt about the dark side of business from the 11-year-old eponymous protagonist of William Gaddis’s 1975 National Book Award-winning novel, JR....
...Alexander Meigs Haig Jr was born on December 2 1924 in a Philadelphia suburb....
...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”....
...DovesForum, London Doves belong to a northern English tradition, visible in Ken Loach’s film Kes or D.H....
...A Lincoln By Ronald C White Jr Random House $35 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Kearns Goodwin Penguin £10.99 FT Bookshop price: £8.79 Abraham Lincoln By James M McPherson...
...CAMPOS, a lawyer and former member of the Securities and Exchange Commission under appointed by Bush Jr. He is 58 or 59 years old.William H....
...Clark Peter H. Comisar, investment banking, technology. William J. Conley Jr., securities lending Colin J. Corgan, head of US swaps trading. Jean A. De Pourtales, real estate investing....
...Clark, emerging markets debt fund manager Peter H. Comisar, investment banking, technology. William J. Conley Jr., securities lending Colin J. Corgan, head of US swaps trading. Jean A....
...Sidney Harman, Executive Chairman, Harman International Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman, Hasbro William H. Hayden, Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns Co. F....
...With Respect, William Sweeney, Jr. In the course of history, every bloody action of terror had entrenched in itself some political motivation....
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