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    Vignette: Bitch Set Me Up

    MARION BARRY DOESN'T CARE IF YOU'RE SORRY The former President has been on a crusade since he left office. He's not looking for forgiveness. He's not looking for a comeback. Ryan Lizza | The New Yorker | October 29, 2012 ------------------------------------------------------- On a pleasant...
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    Vignette: Viva Hate

    John Lennon Review - Working Class Zero ** The Guardian | Music | 28th June 2017 Royal Albert Hall, London The best of the Plastic Ono Band fails to mask the fact John Lennon just isn't in demand anymore Thirty years ago a concert fronted by John Lennon would have been the talk of the town, a...
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    AHC: A British Lega Nord

    For those who don't know a great deal about Italian politics (you bastards), Lega Nord (or "Northern League") is an Italian regionalist party dedicated to providing more autonomy for...you guessed it, the North regions of the country. They allied with Berlusconi during his time in office, and...
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    WI: South African guns in Ulster hands

    During the 80's NI Loyalist group Ulster Resistance attempted to shop weapons bought from South Africa to fight the IT'S? In most cases they were caught. What if they weren't and ended up using them on the Ra or Civilians?
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    AH Vignette: 'Death to the Hired Brothers'

    Pain can be rigorously hard to define when you are unable to trace it well. Uday wished he had the pleasure of being unsure - of perhaps chalking his pain up to something that wasn't as mundane as eight bullets fired from the gun of a Shi'ite. The fact he now had all the time to reflect on it...
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    AHC/WI: Paisley moderates in 1972

    The popular history on the Reverend Ian Paisley in Northern Ireland is that he spent thirty odd years as a priest preaching from a gospel of hate/hand me down bible, riling up working class protestants, making himself responsible for an uptick in loyalist violence, participated in the peace...
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    AH Vignette: 'Breaking Point'

    Typically the inside of a bar is rowdy, full of friendly and not so friendly bustle. When they're open, that is. It was well past closing time at a pub in Chiswick as a man with a slight resemblance to a frog began proudly puffing away at a treasured cigarette, secure with the knowledge that he...
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    Beauty Beyond The Senses: Heston in the White House

    "Stay in the chariot, make sure you win the damn race." - Charlton Heston
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    AH Vignette: 'Flick of the Wrist'

    No job causes a greater amount of stress upon the holder than that of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is a position which lends credibility, but also a high standard that must be strenuously kept up lest the respect of the officeholder diminish in...
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    WI: The Sun goes under in 1969

    As of today, the Sun is the most widely read newspaper in Britain. However, it was not always the lower market tabloid it is now. Launched in 1964 with the intention of representing the radical affluent society, the original Sun did decently for a bit before being befell by a decline in...
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    Crestfallen Hope: Crisis in the Networking Decade

    "Fear is a motivator, and we are not fear-mongers" - Nancy Pelosi ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . Get on with it! Very well!
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    TLIAM: No Substitute For Victory
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    "In war there is no substitute for victory" - General Douglas Macarthur. Chapter One: Gridlock "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Ronald Reagan was no stranger to electoral politics. By the time Nixon flashed the V sign on the...
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    AH Vignette #9: Feelin' Free

    Richard Nixon, the CEO who took Pepsi abroad and left his rivals in the dust, dead at 87 Nancy Gibbs Washington Post February 13 2000 Richard Milhous Nixon, the former Chief Executive Officer of Pepsi Cola and the only owner of the Washington Redskins to be forced to sell the team, died last...
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    AH Vignette #8: 'Forward'

    A bitterness seemed to envelop the air. The sky was covered in shapeless clouds, eager to rain upon the city. As he stepped into the car and placed himself on the leather seats, a young man - young for his 50's, anyway - looked upon this dreary scene and remarked. "Not the greatest of weather,"...
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    AH Vignette #7: 'The Passenger'

    Sequel to this ‘He wanted to go to his mother…but he never did go to her …he made himself cope alone.’ - I'm the King of the Castle, Susan Hill. --- As he sat, waking from a long nap, the president noticed cracks in his glasses. Very prominent cracks, too, not ones you could simply ignore as...
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    WI: Ken Clarke loses Rushcliffe in 1997?

    Ken Clarke, a notable One Nationer and leadership contender who served as Health Secretary under Margaret Thatcher, Chancellor of the Exchequer under John Major and Lord Chancellor under David Cameron, has represented the safe seat of Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire since 1970. He's usually had a...
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    WI: No political comeback for Michael Howard

    Michael Howard's post 1999 comeback is something of an amazement. First serving as Home Secretary in the Major government, and not a well regarded one at that, he ran for leader of the Conservative party after the drubbing of 1997. His bid was initially thought to do well, until a disastrous...
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    AH Vignette #6: 'You Get What You Give'

    I'm on a mexican radio I'm on a mexican radio I dial it in and tune the station They talk about the u.s. inflation I understand just a little No comprende--it's a riddle I'm on a mexican radio I'm on a mexican radio -- "My patience is runnin' thin. Get out of my office!" So, that's how he...
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    WI: 1974/1975 Devolution Referendums

    David Owen wrote in his autobiography, Time to Declare (which is a very good read), that Heath planned to offer Devolution referendums to the SNP and Plaid Cymru in order to get them on board if Jeremy Thorpe agreed to a coalition shortly following the election in February '74. Let's assume...
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    WI: Edgar Graham survives assasination

    Edgar Graham, a law lecturer (who recieved widespread praise) at Queen's university who became a member of the brief NI Assembly in 1982, was seen as a rising star within the creaking Ulster Unionist Party at the time of his death on the 7th of December, 1983. He was with his friend Dermot...
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