Word: khans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This biography leaves little to the imagination. Divorced from Welles and entrusted with the care of their daughter, Hayworth wanted a peaceful, anonymous existence. And then she married . . . Aly Khan, already fabled in the tabloids for his wealth and promiscuity. Before long she ran back to America, with another daughter, Yasmin, in tow. And then she married Dick Haymes, a failing nightclub singer with big problems in the area of unpaid alimony and back taxes...
...years, Eric Clapton has performed and recorded with some of the finest musicians ever to play rock and roll, jazz and the blues. Even on Journeyman, Clapton managed to attract talent like George Harrison and Robert Cray, as well as musicians Phil Collins and David Sanborn and vocalists Chaka Khan and Daryl Hall. That Clapton has still found it necessary on his most recent albums to rely on synthesized instrumentation and programmed drums is a distressing sign of just how far he has fallen...
...sense that Fukuyama and almost everyone else thinks about it, has been around for only 70-odd years. There were plenty of predatory tyrannies before Lenin arrived at the Finland Station, and there will be plenty more even if a Romanov is restored to a Kremlin throne. Genghis Khan and Caligula didn't need a course in dialectical materialism to make their periods of history interesting, and neither do today's bad actors -- or tomorrow...
...fellow conservatives, however, find him delightful. Says John Buckley, spokesman for the Republican Congressional Committee: "Gingrich is classic agitprop -- great with devising the arguments to forward our revolution. I see him as one-third Thomas Paine, one-third Winston Churchill and one-third Genghis Khan...
...even know where the "Jewish centers" were in his native city of Leningrad. He was not considered as an informant on Soviet affairs by various specialist on Mongolia and Mongolian. I have not read the book reported in the Crimson but it sounds somewhat sensational. Richard N. Frye Aga Khan Professor of Iranian