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...creation of the fellowships is an appropriate way for HSBC to honor Edmond Safra's memory," HSBC Chair Sir John Bond said in a press release...
McCain approached the irregular soldier. "Sir," he said, "with that enthusiasm and that attire, if they don't listen to you, sir, then they're not worth talking to." The questions from the audience matched its diversity, and the contradictions of McCain were on full view. "That's out-and-out racism," he said in response to a question about Bob Jones University. "I would tell them, 'Get out of the 16th century and into the 20th century.'" That was the moderate, tolerant, swinging John McCain talking. But then on a question about public funding for artists like photographer Robert...
This was not a dichotomy unique to Jonsons career. While Jonson was just beginning his literary work, Sir Philip Sidney attacked contemporary drama in his Defense of Poesy for (among other things) undermining theseriousness of literature. Even today, there are still strong echoes ofthis work-play opposition. A friend recently tried to explain to me why there are relatively few modern productions of Luigi Pirandello's plays despite his highstature in the literary world. Pirandello wrote academic exercises more than he wrote plays, she told me, and so they're very hard to put on. My friend's language alone...
...this Council that has orchestrated a conspiracy for more than two decades, says Sir William Jaffray, the lead Name in the upcoming London trial. "By the late 1970s," he told TIME, "the Committee [Council] of Lloyd's knew they were facing a crisis, and by 1982 the hierarchy knew that Lloyd's was bust. The only way they could keep going was to suppress the asbestos information, cook the books to ensure they were still showing profits, and go after new investors...
...Polshek, architect of the Rose Center, went to the 18th. His solid sphere set in a mostly glass cube has its origins in one of the abiding fantasies of the architectural world: the unbuilt ball that French neoclassical visionary Etienne-Louis Boullee conceived in 1784 as a memorial to Sir Isaac Newton. Boullee knew a simple sphere would state with full authority the grandeur of the cosmos. Polshek knew...