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Avrum Burg is the scion of one of Israel's founding families - his father was the deputy speaker of the first Knesset, and Burg himself later became speaker of the legislature, and a member of Israel's cabinet. His position at the heart of the Israeli establishment makes all the more remarkable his critique of the Jewish State, which he claims has lost its sense of moral purpose. In his new book The Holocaust Is Over: We Must Rise from Its Ashes (Palgrave/MacMillan), he argues that an obsession with an exaggerated sense of threats to Jewish survival cultivated by Israel...
...sent the footman to the stables.It had become increasingly unbearable for Felicity to see her husband and that doxy of a chambermaid canoodling in her house. He had vowed to be hers forevermore under the sight of God, Don Juan Jaime—the priest—and every scion of the local aristocracy!She couldn’t even take pleasure in the knowledge that she had The Stable Boy to herself. Even in the throes of passion on the stable floor, she sensed his mind wandering off. She had seen him watching for the post and had wondered...
...House of Lords as Baron Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool to serve as Business Secretary. Sharing top billing is George Osborne, the Conservative Party's azure-blooded Shadow Chancellor, a cherub-cheeked 37-year-old son of a Baronet. Their interactions with each other and with Nathaniel Rothschild, scion of the eponymous banking dynasty, and Rothschild's friend and business associate Oleg Deripaska, a reclusive oligarch routinely described as Russia's wealthiest man, took place aboard Deripaska's super-yacht and in other opulent Adriatic locations over a long weekend in August. Throw in cameo appearances by Rupert Murdoch...
...TELEVISION Sons of Anarchy Jax (Charlie Hunnam), scion of a California biker gang, starts to question the club's transformation from freedom-loving counter-culturalists into gunrunning criminal outfit. This gory drama (FX, Wednesdays, 10 p.m.) is a compelling story of an uneasy rider...
Suzan Sabanci Dinçer is all too familiar with banking crises and their devastating effects. A scion of one of Turkey's most famous business dynasties, she is chairwoman of Akbank, the country's biggest privately owned bank. Back in 2001, she lived through a meltdown of the Turkish banking system and a terrifying 9.5% one-year drop in gross domestic product. Akbank posted a big loss that year, but at least it escaped a worse fate: almost half of the nation's 80-plus banks disappeared...