Mantel's literary agent, Bill Hamilton, said Tuesday the author had no comment on the controversy over her lecture.

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Mantel's literary agent, Bill Hamilton, said Tuesday that she had no comment on the controversy over her lecture.

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At Cambridge University, Bill Hamilton studied genetics.

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CNN's John King had more on this from Hamilton, Ohio, where the bill was signed.

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In Scotland we never seem to stop having elections - last week it was Hamilton with a superb candidate in Bill Tynan - we won - again, just as we did in Wigan.

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Indeed, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton both feared and opposed the inclusion of a Bill of Rights in the Constitution.

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Bill Bennett, Chairman of the Manx Motor Cycle Club, paid tribute to Mr Hamilton.

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