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Whitney Houston, Pop Singer With a Giant Voice, Died at 48
Whitney Elizabeth Houston, the giant-voiced pop singer who sold more records than any female star before her, died on February 11th aged 48. Her gift carried her from…
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Beatrice Almeida
Books and ideas critic reviewing economics, history, and political writing.
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Six Essential Books on America’s Founding Fathers
From the collaborative drama of the 1790s to the personal paradox of slavery at Monticello, these six books reveal the founders as politicians, rivals and flawed humans whose…
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Robert Harris Agrippa review: Timely Rome epic misses Cicero heights
Robert Harris returns to ancient Rome in Agrippa, a timely novel of friendship and power told by Augustus's general — more accessible than Gibbon, but blunter than his…