From what I'd heard about Alex's parents, it sounded like we were on track to repeat history.
Following several comments from peers about Alex Salmond, Plaid Cymru's Lord Wigley rose to say he could not sit by and hear his friend "badmouthed".
There is also a sub-plot about Alex's father, who fled to the West when he and his sister were young children and who re-appears in time for a reconciliation with his mother before she dies.
Via Scott Sumner, there is an interesting discussion from blogger Alex Jutca about having lunch with Greg Mankiw.
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Shane talks with Alex Chadwick about the Justice Department documents and his article.
He talks with Alex Cohen about the significance of the resolution's unanimous approval and what it will mean for the Sudan and the United States in the coming months.
The chairman of the assembly's justice committee, Paul Givan, has said comments made by Alex Maskey about violence in the Short Strand were not within the members' code of conduct.
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Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey asked about alcohol-related incidents in hospital accident and emergency units.
Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey asked about the priorities for the development corporation.
"The news report about a purported relationship between Alex Rodriguez and Anthony Bosch are not true, " Rodriguez said in a statement issued by a publicist.
Doubts have been raised about the point of Sir Alex Allan - an adviser who has chosen neither to investigate Mr Hunt nor to advise Mr Cameron.
When asked, Alex says he worries about food all the time, and that he's always hungry.
Alex is also talking about relationships, which is what the media business is all about.
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Mr. DECLAN WALSH (Reporter, The Guardian): Approximately 11, 000 coalition forces are involved, Alex, spread across about four provinces here in the south.
As he briefed the media about today's agreement, Alex Salmond confided that he had been told by his advisers: do not look triumphalist.
My friend Alex Hernandez recently wrote about this in some depth, and my colleague Katherine Mackey and I have written about this a couple times before as well.
The two Yankees that should be jumping for joy about now: Jorge Posada and Alex Rodriguez, both of whom snuck in under the wire with lucrative extensions granted just after the 2007 season.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson refused to talk about the sending off of his Brazilian right-back Rafael.
Mr McGuinness was asked about comments by his Sinn Fein colleague Alex Maskey who said he would defend his home if it was "coming under attack".
South of Scotland Lib Dem MSP Jim Hume, the SNP's Aileen McLeod and Conservative Alex Fergusson also raised concerns about the situation as did Dumfries and Galloway councillors.
The LSE students and the BBC journalists all returned safely from their trip last month, but some of the students then complained about what Sweeney had done, said Alex Peters-Day, the secretary-general of the LSE's students union.
Only about 60, 000 Scots speak Gaelic and Alex Salmond, the Scottish National Party (SNP) leader, is rarely seen in a kilt.
He has so far remained silent about the controversy and on Tuesday his wife Alex Curran, 26, said they would not be commenting.
Alex Hartley and 18 volunteers excavated about six tonnes of material from an island exposed by a glacier on the Svalbard peninsula in Norway.
Let me also note that this question from Alex in Ohio happens to be about the same topic that the Middle Class Task Force is focusing on this month.
Director Alex Chan explained that the test is about an hour, so the class helps prepare students to gain the necessary concentration.
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"It is a very tiny ripple but reflects that Microsoft has done a lot of marketing around it and that people are curious about anything new that is launched, " said Alex Burmaster, communications director at Nielsen.
This caught the attention of BusinessWeek tech editor Alex Salkever, who had followed and written about my tech career.
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