What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived
It is January 1963, and Hugh Gaitskell, the leader of the Labour Party, is feeling unwell. Four days into the new year, he checks into the Middlesex hospital. The experts are baffled; he se...
The New Statesman,
Mon Nov 23 01:29:27 PST 2009
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Orange Grove: Public servants now our masters
... Legislature are always expanding the volume of regulations and the size of government. The Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus shrewdly observed, "The more corrupt the state, the more nu...
Star-Progress,
Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:48:09 GMT
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Herald 1.1 - New Os X Mail Announcements, Slick and Functional
"The Batavians plunged through where the current was strongest," Tacitus recounts a Germanic tribe's reaction to the naval attack launched by Germanicus in the year 16.
About Email,
Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:26 GMT
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Nigeria: A place where a day after becomes worse than the one before...
... into reality ( Warren Bennis ) Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. ( Caius Cornelius Tacitus ) Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it ...
Nigeriaworld,
Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:50:18 GMT
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Blood and Mistletoe: a history of the Druids in Britain, By Ronald Hutton
... readable. There is little raw material on the Druids, most from the classical histories of Julius Caesar, Strabo, Tacitus and Pliny. Some of this "may be wildly inaccurate and some acc...
The Independent,
Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:01:07 GMT
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Robert Byrd, longest-serving Congress member, a master historian
... the line-item veto, Senator Byrd taught himself Roman history by reading accounts of Julius Caesar, Livy, Plutarch, Tacitus, and others. "When the Roman Senate gave up its control of t...
MinnPost.com,
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:03:00 GMT
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What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived
... And Gaitskell? He disappeared to Ian Fleming's Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye, and a life of suntanned obscurity. As Tacitus wrote of the Roman emperor Galba: "Everyone thought he was cap...
New Statesman,
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:52:17 GMT
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Robert Byrd becomes longest-serving member of Congress
... the line-item veto, Senator Byrd taught himself Roman history by reading accounts of Julius Caesar, Livy, Plutarch, Tacitus and others. "When the Roman Senate gave up its control of th...
MinnPost.com,
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:58:00 GMT
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Emerson Brooking I came, I saw, I majored
... to persistent fears of moral decay - were the same issues addressed thousands of years ago by men like the historian Tacitus or the statesman Cato. Through only a handful of extant sou...
Daily Pennsylvanian,
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:44:17 GMT
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Editorials
But as it got bigger and took on the supermarkets, many say it lost its soul By Stuart Jeffries In the Bloomsbury, central London, branch of the UK bookshop chain Waterstone s, I am trying ...
Taipei Times,
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:40:27 GMT
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How the bookshop chain killed bookselling
... Bloomsbury, central London, branch of the UK bookshop chain Waterstone s, I am trying to find a quiet seat to read Tacitus account of Seneca s suicide when I come across something more...
Taipei Times,
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:39:43 GMT
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