• He was the first president to golf while in office, but despite the energy of a 350-pound build and potential to hit the long ball, William Howard Taft was one of the worst presidential golfers.

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  • Ms. Osnes, a fine singer and a very good dancer, makes the most of Josh Rhodes's well-wrought choreography and looks great in William Ivey Long's fancy costumes but, then, so does everyone else, especially Victoria Clark and Harriet Harris.

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  • That ll go a long way toward getting Chairman William Clay Ford Jr.

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  • David Long, an analyst at William Blair, said the proposal would negatively impact the company, but he felt the sell-off was overblown.

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  • Ian Kinney, 38, of William Street, Long Eaton, pleaded guilty to possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.

    BBC: Former Long Eaton soldier jailed for BB gun threat

  • The 70m (230ft) long tapestry was commissioned by William the Conqueror's half-brother, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.

    BBC: Bayeux Tapestry 'made by same people in same place'

  • Add to the list another requirement: They need to be multi-talented, says Bonnie Liedtke, a William Morris agent long specializing in kid actors from Leonardo DiCaprio and Hilary Swank to High School Musical's Zac Efron and Corbin Bleu.

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  • The cash injection will be spent improving parts of the 96-mile-long route from Milngavie to Fort William.

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  • But others, like John Bellinger, the current State Department legal adviser, and his predecessor, William Taft, have long urged a more measured approach.

    ECONOMIST: George Bush's climb-down over the Geneva Conventions

  • Mercy Scott, 67, and her friend Margaret Shiever, 66, who got the bus from Cramlington, are life-long royal fans and were disappointed Prince William had to miss out at the last minute.

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  • It had long been expected that a battle to replace William Hague might end up as a fight between Mr Portillo and Mr Clarke and that now seems a highly likely outcome.

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  • William thought there must be a long compound German word for the way that large events in the world could affect your personal life: the scale was reduced to the point of insignificance, but the everyday effect was amplified.

    NEWYORKER: The Proxy Marriage

  • This long record of public service earns the admiration of William Silber, his new biographer.

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  • Not long after Billy's birth, his father, William Connolly, left to join the war effort in Burma.

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  • He had long-running spats with his contemporaries, conservative pundit William F Buckley Jr and writer Norman Mailer, whom Vidal once likened to killer Charles Manson.

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  • While a rosy optimism has fuelled the party in Wall Street (at least until this week), William McChesney Martin would have bolted for the door long ago, punchbowl firmly tucked under his arm.

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  • William Rehnquist, the chief justice, has fought a long and often lonely battle to roll back what he sees as the overextension of federal power, a subject which is also a hobby horse of many Republican politicians.

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  • Examples range from William Jennings Bryan, a Populist presidential aspirant, to Huey Long, and presently to John Edwards and Mike Huckabee.

    ECONOMIST: Colombia's army

  • U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen said today the the United States has "a long way to go" in its ability to respond to the threat posed by chemical and biological terrorism.

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  • What is particularly fascinating about the Pistorius case is that it has many parallels with the 1955 killing of racehorse owner William Woodward, Jr. in his fashionable Oyster Bay, Long Island estate.

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  • As a defender, he helped IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) ward off a long antitrust investigation, and successfully defended CBS in a libel suit brought by General William Westmoreland.

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  • For the Conservatives, shadow foreign secretary William Hague said it was "astonishing" Mr Brown had taken so long to comment on the matter and that the PM was not prepared to address the question of whether Megrahi's release was justified.

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  • And the most poignant moment was the manful William Rehnquist, unable to wear a tie and making his way down the long marble steps to swear in the president.

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  • But the reason that Massachusetts Republicans have held that office for so long is that, number one, they've had better candidates in the past, I mean William Weld succeeded Michael Dukakis after he had a failed run for the presidency.

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  • In 1993, when William Rouhana, started WinStar--a full-service phone company, offering its customers local, long distance and data services--many scoffed at the idea.

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