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...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...It focuses on the barbed late-night TV debates in 1968 between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch-conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr, which catapulted the struggling ABC network...
...It seems a fair bet that the philosophical revivalists of American conservatism in the 1950s and ’60s — political theorist and social critic Russell Kirk and William F Buckley Jr, the National Review editor...
...Try the pairing of six Lindisfarne oysters with a cool gin martini (£35) for the full experience. 28-32 St Martin’s Court, WC2; book at j-sheekey.co.uk...
...Additional reporting by Maiqi Ding in Beijing and William Langley in Hong Kong...
...This chemistry is the spark of life that has stopped Dinosaur Jr from following so many of their slacker-rock peers into extinction. ★★★★☆ ‘Sweep It Into Space’ is released by Jagjaguwar...
...One sizzling recent example was James Graham’s Best of Enemies at London’s Young Vic, which dramatised genuine debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr....
...Trevor Williams: No — it may have gone too far in raising taxes....
...So the question arises, why did George Floyd’s death spark protests, first in Minneapolis, then across the US and the world?...
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...As Martin Luther King Jr said: “A riot is the language of the unheard.”...
...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....
...The 27-year-old curator William J....
...Miller Jr, attorney, Washington, DC, August 10 1976; James Angleton, former chief of counter-intelligence, CIA, Arlington, Virginia, July 8 1976; Lady Bird Johnson, former US First Lady, McLean, Virginia...
...Even if the vaccine rollout sparks a big rebound in demand later in the year, the wounds of job losses and bankruptcies will remain deep....
...Weariness with lockdown could spark conflict with the government. In the US and the UK, Catholic priests have agitated for the opening of churches....
...Mueller said his team considered issuing a subpoena after receiving the written responses, but decided against the move for the same reason: they had already made sufficient progress and did not want to spark...
...The report said Mr Mueller also considered charges against Manafort, as well as Donald Trump Jr and Jared Kushner — the president’s son and son-in-law, respectively — for violating campaign finance laws...
...Then we make our way along Wood Vale, past K & J Libretto & Daughters, a resolutely ungentrified butcher’s shop....
...Mr Trump Jr agreed to the meeting on the expectation they would receive “dirt” on Mrs Clinton from the Russian government....
...There was Adam Finkel of Annjoy, Arizona-based supplier of paper shopping bags used by high-end retailers such as J Crew and Godiva....
...Biographies of note in the early part of the year include Richard J Evans’s Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little Brown, February) — the first one of the late historian and polymath....
...Towards the end we get a glimpse of the kind of person William Ford Jr had the potential to become....
...The president’s son Donald J. Trump Jr. duly laid all dictatorial parallels to rest by saying they had made “a great call” on Twitter....
...The Atlanta-based company, the third largest US homebuilder by revenue, said Mr Dugas’s decision was driven in part by pressure from founder William J Pulte, his grandson Bill Pulte, and Jim Grosfeld, who...
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