He knew more about the doings of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the ultra-secret wartime outfit devoted to bolstering resistance in Europe, than any man alive, for he had written its history.
Allan Meltzer, a professor of political economy at Carnegie Mellon University who has written a history of the Federal Reserve, says it doesn't necessarily sully Bernanke's reputation to repeat the same mantra every time he visits the Hill.
Lawmakers and traditional law-enforcement agencies, in particular the FBI, resisted extending the power to carry firearms, execute warrants and make arrests to other agencies, says Jeffrey Bumgarner, a professor of government at Minnesota State University who has written a history of federal law enforcement.
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Stanley Fish, a literary theorist, has suggested that the entire history of Western thought could be written as a history of the debate between Socrates and the sophists, namely that between philosophy and rhetoric.
Federer has written so much history on this lawn less than a month ago, he'd won his seventh Wimbledon singles title but Friday felt uncharted.
The islanders can't just be written out of history.
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A. system on a cruise ship as it passed through the Panama Canal, and written on the history of bourbon whiskey and the making of Steinway pianos, among many, many other things.
"Everybody is afraid of Rolex, but the true aficionado knows that it makes what is pretty much an indestructible watch, " says Jeffrey Hess, who has written an unauthorized history of the company with James M.
When the fighting is finished, history is written, inevitably by those in power, observes Mr Dower.
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Books and dissertations have been written about the complicated history and cultural practices of this event and the way they shape New Orleans.
Mr Cameron should have apologised for the famine says Madhusree Mukherjee, who has written a widely praised history of the Bengali famine.
When history is written, we will look back and see that by the end of 2012, a new era for AIG had begun.
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Mr Jeuda, who has written books on the history of the North Staffordshire Railway, said the building of the tunnel was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1846.
Mr. JOHN CALVERT (Founder, Intelligent Design Network): When history is written, 10, 15 years from now, it will show Kansas on the cutting edge of, you know, a new teaching paradigm.
The effect was first used in an 1862 dramatization of Charles Dickens' novella "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, " staged at the Royal Polytechnic Institute in London, according to Jim Steinmeyer, an illusion designer who has written extensively about the history of his craft, including Pepper's Ghost.
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The Berlin section, which has been directed by Terence Riley, chief curator of the department of architecture and design at MoMA, in collaboration with Barry Bergdoll, professor of art history at Columbia University, is rich in the pre-1920s houses later written out of Mies's official history of himself.
Tomorrow's history is being written today, and we can all help shape the narrative.
When history books are written on the last several years my only hope is that proper credit is given to the creative financing which was the direct catalyst for the stock market bottom and subsequent rise.
New York Harbor is already rich with maritime history, and with the continued support from the State Governments of New Jersey and New York, and a strong backing from the Port Authority, there will be many more centuries of maritime history to be written.
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But Dunant's dream, to quote the title of Caroline Moorhead's finely written, thoughtful and well researched history, was a limited one.
Another chapter in this long history is currently being written in Iraq.
When the economic history of Japan is written years down the road, Haruhiko Kuroda's first monetary policy meeting as the governor of the country's central bank is most likely to get a prominent mention.
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Very much a work of art rather than of history, this beautifully written novel edges towards saying something profound about the relationships between art and life, men and women, the powerful and the disempowered, without ever becoming a simplistic parable.
Prosecutors described what happened as "scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history".
The history of computing is largely written on paper and plastic that gets thrown away.
We've seen some books written about the barbershop, and the history, and the grand tradition.
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