Results for “British Empire”

…ychologists, and scientists, each of whom asked to lecture on his own work in terms of its relationship to the ideas of British mathematician G. Spencer Brown presented in his book, Laws of Form. I was a bit puzzled when I received an invitation—a very late invitation indeed— whi...

… 2010, is London’s time to shine like the diamond it is in the international art-market sun, as Frieze Week bows in the British super-city. With dozens of events and most of the best galleries making the trip, the whole thing is exhausting just to think about. Here, then, a quick...

…n also has a long relationship with the family of disgraced press baron, Robert Maxwell, another reliable target of the British press.) Flimsy and far-fetched court filings in the U.S. by settlement-hungry plaintiffs might be discounted by skeptical U.S. reporters, but, the U.K....

…s. Notes: * Delusions, confabulations and the fabric of belief: Ames, D. (1984). Self shooting of a phantom head. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 145(2), 193; McKay, R. & Dennett, D. (2009) The evolution of misbelief. Behavioral and Brain Sciences vol. 32 pp. 493-561; Hirste...

…cessary to extend the usefulness of theft. One of the most famous examples of this principle was the deceptions used by British intelligence in the Second World War to conceal its success in breaking the German ciphers generated by the Enigma machines. If German naval intelligenc...

…s, have come forward with allegations that he molested them when they were under-age. The allegations first surfaced in British newspapers, which have zeroed in on Epstein’s friendship with Prince Andrew, who has recently tried to publicly disassociate himself from his old pal....

…g. Journalists from England have phoned—and, in one case, flown—to ask me about Epstein and Maxwell. Who is he? And the British, especially, want to know: Who is she? At this point, I am so bored of repeating myself to others—it was, after all, my 2003 Vanity Fairstory that reall...

…mainly the Anglo-American part of it — had recovered some of its pride and nerve under U.S. President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. And there was the growing evidence of post-colonial regimes’ failure, violence and corruption, especially in Africa....

…ews who had been dispersed after conquests. Israel's founding takes place in the context of the decline and fall of the British Empire and must

… not less, serious. The “Arab Spring” has morphed into an Islamic winter. National frontiers that were put in place by British and French diplomats after the fall of the Ottoman Empire are vanishing. Centuries-old conflicts between tribes and rival religious communities have rei...

…lose to that. I think they've done a very good job of policing themselves to really make sure that people including the British National Front and others were not included in the party, and I think you've seen that also with tea party groups, where some people would show up and w...

…st. Simon Stevens — EVP, UnitedHealth Group. Fmr CEO, Ovations (revenues of $31 billion). Fmr Health Policy Director to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Henry Sweica — CEO, Talpion Fund Management. Fmr co-founder, Highbridge Capital Management. Alexander Tamas - Partner, DST. B...

…t. *Simon Stevens*— EVP, UnitedHealth Group. Fmr CEO, Ovations (revenues of $31 billion). Fmr Health Policy Director to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. *Henry Sweica*— CEO, Talpion Fund Management. Fmr co-founder, Highbridge Capital Management. *Alexander Tamas*- Partner, DST....

…lose to that. I think they've done a very good job of policing themselves to really make sure that people including the British National Front and others were not included in the party, and I think you've seen that also with tea party groups, where some people would show up and w...

…nce. But even Epstein could scarcely have imagined she would create an opportunity for friendship with a member of the British royal family — Prince Andrew, whom she appears to have met in London when he was working at the Minstry of Defence. At the turn of the millennium, Ghis...