The shrewdest contracts in baseball are long-term bets on young starters.
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He ultimately landed Harden with one of the shrewdest trades in league history.
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Perhaps the shrewdest move in the chaos of Monday night came from Minnesota Sen.
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Only the shrewdest, most virtuous man in the world can undermine the worst one.
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Mr. Boies is known as one of the smartest and shrewdest litigators in the country.
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Perhaps the Clinton campaign's shrewdest insight into Donald Trump is that he is easily baited.
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Its chairman, Mark Brodsky, is one of the shrewdest hedge-fund managers of his generation.
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This is, as my colleague Brian Beutler wrote today, not the shrewdest strategy in the world.
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One of America's shrewdest observers was the journalist H.L. Mencken, the so-called Sage of Baltimore.
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"Inventing the Future" may be the shrewdest, sanest pipe dream of a book published since the recession.
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It is difficult to outthink both the market and the shrewdest investors — like Mr. Marks — who study it.
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It's poetic, lively, engaging theater — and proof that O'Neill remains one of American theater's shrewdest and most relevant writers.
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But we'll settle for a new book explaining how the riskiest and shrewdest deal in publishing history went down.
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"If you were to invest like you own a grocery shop, you'd be among the shrewdest of investors," Giacoumakis said.
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The origin of movement had bewitched some of history's shrewdest minds: Alcmaeon, Plato, Aristotle, Posidonius, Al-Razi, Descartes, Newton, Franklin.
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She also makes affirmational videos that she posts on her online channel, which is one of this movie's shrewdest conceits.
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Netanyahu, who has the strong backing of President Trump, is at his shrewdest and most ruthless when backed into a corner.
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It was a sleight of hand characteristic of Asia's shrewdest veteran politician — and it left Malaysians breathless from the political machinations.
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Make no mistake, Swift is one of the shrewdest businesspeople in the music industry, and she will get every dollar she's earned.
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The man to watch is Nguyen Tan Dung, Vietnam's prime minister for ten years and probably its shrewdest and least uncharismatic politician.
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Clay Shirky, one of the shrewdest internet theorists around, has noted that the faster the medium is, the more emotional it gets.
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Surprisingly, Clinton herself, when pressed, was her own shrewdest strategist, a role that had never been her strong suit in the White House.
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This band once again qualifies as Lamar's shrewdest political statement, evoking familiar-sounding psychedelic jazz even as it zaps you with the shock of the new.
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This was his passport out of the Death Star, and a chance to try his spy skills against one of the shrewdest characters he'd ever met.
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On one hand, Hill gives one of the NFL's shrewdest offensive minds an explosive mobile quarterback, a schematic advantage the likes of which Sean Payton has never had.
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But sandwiched between those picks was one of the shrewdest late-round selections in the last 222 years: San Jose Sharks captain and Conn Smythe candidate Joe Pavelski.
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During James Comey and Mike Rogers's testimony before the Intelligence Committee, Gowdy was the shrewdest Republican, steering the investigation away from the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russia.
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Mr. Soros is said to have made more than $1 billion by shorting the pound — a move that cemented his reputation as one of the shrewdest currency traders.
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"Alsop's shrewdest move is the seemingly chaotic slant of the legs," which, Mr. Goldberger noted, created a "sense of rhythmic movement" that vertical columns would not have provided.
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Never the shrewdest of businessmen, he was forced to file for bankruptcy in 1993 and to sell the copyrights to some of his songs to pay off his debts.
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For instance, one of King's shrewdest metaphors is that Mike, who is black, is the only one of the Losers who remembers the evil they confronted together in Derry.
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Diplomats and foreign analysts call the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) the country's shrewdest foreign-policy think-tank, despite (or perhaps because of) its links to the deep state.
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Distressed debt investors are among the shrewdest litigation analysts in business, and Lenkner agreed their due diligence is similar to what litigation funders would consider before investing in a bankruptcy trustee's case.
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From James Harden's MVP-caliber campaign to Eric Gordon's Sixth Man-deserving revival, they were breezy and enjoyable, purveyors of a playing style that thrilled audiences and humbled the shrewdest defensive tacticians.
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Further, the movies' morality was grounded in the idea that people in power are corrupt, morality is relative, and the shrewdest character wins, rather than some puritan idea of right and wrong.
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Seasons 2 through 6 offer some of TV's shrewdest commentaries on issues both topical and timeless, from MeToo and celebrity apology tours to the futility of magical thinking and the chaos of grief.
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It might have been an uncharacteristically nervy Mario Draghi in front of the cameras in Frankfurt last month, but the ECB (European Central Bank) President has made some of his shrewdest moves to date.
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McConnell, who has a reputation as one of the shrewdest tacticians on Capitol Hill but sometimes draws criticism even from GOP colleagues for being too focused on politics, says he's now entirely focused on governing.
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Kennedy took the shrewdest possible approach to supporting tax cuts by arguing not just that they would put more money in Americans' pockets, but that they would lead to full employment and real economic growth.
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When you dig down, the explanation's pretty clear: the company's been making some very shrewd moves with its product portfolio, the shrewdest of all being the acquisition of the Craftsman tool business from the moribund Sears Holdings.
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In the competitive start-up world, even the shrewdest entrepreneurs — with the latest and greatest gadgets — can find themselves thrown unexpectedly into legal quagmires that could derail or blow up a dream before it gets off the ground.
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Ruiz (Jessica Pimentel) is perhaps Litchfield's shrewdest operator; after Daya (Dascha Polanco) gets a hold of a particularly sadistic guard's gun, the Latinas become the prison's most powerful ethnic group, and Ruiz is the most militant revolutionary among them.
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A quarter of a century later, Mr. Fink recognized that the time was right for E.T.F.s and — in the depths of the financial crisis — bought Barclays's iShares business, a deal analysts consider one of the shrewdest in recent Wall Street memory.
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Known as 'Big Phil' in Irish political circles, the 59-year-old Hogan was one of former prime minister Enda Kenny's shrewdest political operators and Leo Varadkar, Kenny's successor, referenced Hogan's knack of building alliances when putting his name forward again.
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Stephen Pacala, a Princeton professor who led the authors, pointed out to me that negative-emissions technologies have various strengths and drawbacks, and that a "portfolio" approach — pursue them all, then see which are the best — may be the shrewdest bet.
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Coolmore, based in Ireland, is considered among the shrewdest horse traders in the world, and proved it in 2015 when it bought the stallion rights to American Pharoah long before he had earned a place in the starting gate for the Derby.
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One of the shrewdest sports owners ever — he turned a floundering franchise into a property that Forbes values at a staggering $27 billion — Kraft has been publicly humiliated by his own league, forced to pay a $20113 million fine and give up two draft choices.
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DALLAS — A few years ago, Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook and one of tech's shrewdest seers, made a huge bet on a new technology, virtual reality, buying Oculus VR, one of the most prominent start-ups in the industry, for more than $2 billion.
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How Bogus 'Eco-Friendly' Products Trick YouGraphic: Sam Woolley (Shutterstock)There are few things more fashionable these days than being "green", but separating a truly eco-friendly bottle of sunscreen from a bottle of emerald-tinted snake-oil can be tough even for the shrewdest of consumers.
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Klee's famous lesson to his students to "take a line for a walk" found its shrewdest interpreter in Albers, who let her thread slide and skitter across the grid of the loom, and then went in by hand to add supplementary wefts that dance over the warp.
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Aditya (Jimmy Shergill) returns from jail and tries to reclaim his political legacy. On meeting London-based gangster Uday Pratap Singh (Sanjay Dutt), the war for the survival of the richest and the shrewdest begins.
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Aditya (Jimmy Shergill) returns from jail and tries to reclaim his political legacy. On meeting London-based gangster Uday Pratap Singh (Sanjay Dutt), the war for the survival of the richest and the shrewdest begins.
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As author Rebecca Harding Davis said, he was "the shrewdest of publishers and kindest of men. He was the wire that conducted the lightning so that it never struck amiss."Felton, R. Todd. A Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England.
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However, none of the marriages was materialized. He died in 1700. Juel, a man of very few words and a sworn enemy of phrasemaking, was perhaps the shrewdest and most cynical diplomat of his day. His motto was: We should wish for what we can get.
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The book starts with the murder of District Attorney Vargas, who is prosecuting a high- profile case. The subsequent investigation failing, the police assign the protagonist Inspector Rogas, "the shrewdest investigator at the disposal of the police,"p4 of 2003 edition. to solve the case. While he is starting his investigation, two judges are killed.
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Yannis is a fashion designer. He is also a homosexual, a fact that all his friends know and accept. He has a neurotic personality and elitist attitude. This is because he knows he is often the shrewdest one in the gang, but also because being a homosexual in the early 1990s Greece made forming and having an according relationship tricky, a source of much stress for Yannis.
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She later chaired the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, overseeing the publication of a landmark report into disability issues. Wedgwood's final term in the Senate expired on 30 June 1971. Noting her retirement, The Herald described her as "one of the shrewdest minds in Canberra over the last two decades", but said that she was "comparatively unknown to the general public because she never grandstanded".
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At the 1964 general election, Labour pledged to establish an office to handle complaints against government departments. In 1967, the Prime Minister Harold Wilson appointed Compton to be first Parliamentary Commissioner (or 'Ombudsman'). Wilson trusted Compton to navigate the Office through its formative years. He previously worked with Compton when he had been Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee and described him as "one of the shrewdest, cleverest, and nicest, men in Whitehall".
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The magazine, The Bicycle, said of him: "It is one thing to have a near-perfectly developed body, capable of the highest tests of human endurance, but the brain of that body must be tuned accordingly, able to dictate and control physical behaviour. And who can doubt that, so far as cycling is concerned, Bob Maitland, national mass start champion in 1949, is one of the shrewdest riders in the game?" He died on 26 August 2010 in Metz, France.
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New York Times, Dec. 13, 1931: Wide Range of Art to Be Sold This Week. "Portrait of Lewis C. Levin" by Rembrandt Peale, among the lot. In 1905 a veteran Pennsylvania journalist and politician, Alexander Kelly McClure, recalled Levin as one of the shrewdest and most persuasive politicians of the period : In a book about the fraught history of religious freedom in the United States, the writer Steven Waldman recalled Levin and his role in the nativist anti-Catholic agitation in the 1840s and 1850s.
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Be it banished from all mind, Never gleam of sun shine on it, never dawn its dusk awake. Night it was, a night most bitter, harder than we could endure, When they fell, the brave men fighting, shrewdest in the battle's skill, Father, mother, sister, brother, friends, the dead with tears have wept. Now the wailing, the lamenting, now no longer will I tell; Each, so far as in him lieth, let him stay his weeping now; On their souls may He have mercy, let us pray the Lord of all.
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Shaughnessy was born October 6, 1853, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the son of Irish Catholics, Lieutenant Tom Shaughnessy (1818–1903), "one of the shrewdest detectives and patrolmen" in the early Milwaukee Police Department, and his wife Mary Kennedy (1826–1905). His father was born at Ashford, in Killeedy, County Limerick, and like his wife they came to the United States during the Great Famine, about 1840. Shaughnessy briefly attended the Spencerian Business College of Milwaukee, but at the age of 16 went to work for the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, first as a clerk, then as a bookkeeper.
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Grant in 1973 Stirling refers to Grant as "one of the shrewdest businessmen ever to operate in Hollywood". His long-term friendship with Howard Hughes from the 1930s onward saw him invited into the most glamorous circles in Hollywood and their lavish parties. Biographers Morecambe and Stirling state that Hughes played a major role in the development of Grant's business interests so that by 1939, he was "already an astute operator with various commercial interests". Scott also played a role, encouraging Grant to invest his money in shares, making him a wealthy man by the end of the 1930s.
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Abdul Sattar (1931 – 23 June 2019) ( ; ), was a Pakistani political scientist, career foreign service officer, diplomat, author of foreign policy, and nuclear strategist. Prior to being appointed as Foreign minister of Pakistan in two non–consecutive terms, Sattar briefly served in the Foreign ministry, first serving as ambassador to the Soviet Union and Permanent Representative of Pakistan to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He authored several books on Foreign policy, and won critical praise of his diplomatic skills and work. In a review of Sattar's book Pakistan's Foreign Policy, Amitabh Mattoo of India Today considered Sattar to be "one of the shrewdest foreign policy practitioners that Islamabad has ever produced".
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Thy death has filled me with grief, The hand round which I lived so long, That I hear not of its strength, And that I saw it not depart; That joyful mouth of softest sounds, Well was it known in every land. Lion of Mull, with its white towers, Hawk of Isla, with its smooth plains, Shrewdest of all the men we knew, Whom guest ne'er left without a gift. Prince of good men, gentle, kind, Whose mien was that of a king's son, Guests came to thee from Dunanoir, Guests from the Boyne for lordly gifts. Truth it is they often came, Not oftener than gave thee joy.
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In 1974, Arnold referred to Kenyatta as "one of the outstanding African leaders now living", someone who had become "synonymous with Kenya". He added that Kenyatta had been "one of the shrewdest politicians" on the continent, regarded as "one of the great architects of African nationalist achievement since 1945". Kenneth O. Nyangena characterised him as "one of the greatest men of the twentieth century", having been "a beacon, a rallying point for suffering Kenyans to fight for their rights, justice and freedom" whose "brilliance gave strength and aspiration to people beyond the boundaries of Kenya". In 2018, Maloba described him as "one of the legendary pioneers of modern African nationalism".
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Obelisk commemorating the Battle of Fontenoy. Verses by Angilbert, who fought the battle on the side of Lothar are cited by historian Eleanor Shipley Duckett as the "Most striking of all these Latin records of the battle". The verses in English are... Fontenoy they call its fountain, manor to the peasant known, There the slaughter, there the ruin, of the blood of Frankish race; Plains and forest shiver, shudder; horror wakes the silent marsh. Neither dew nor shower nor rainfall yields its freshness to that field, Where they fell, the strong men fighting, shrewdest in the battle's skill, Father, mother, sister, brother, friends, the dead with tears have wept.
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In 1974, Arnold referred to Kenyatta as "one of the outstanding African leaders now living", someone who had become "synonymous with Kenya". He added that Kenyatta had been "one of the shrewdest politicians" on the continent, regarded as "one of the great architects of African nationalist achievement since 1945". Kenneth O. Nyangena characterised him as "one of the greatest men of the twentieth century", having been "a beacon, a rallying point for suffering Kenyans to fight for their rights, justice and freedom" whose "brilliance gave strength and aspiration to people beyond the boundaries of Kenya". In 2018, Maloba described him as "one of the legendary pioneers of modern African nationalism".
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The finish of the 1884 Derby from the Illustrated London News. St. Gatien is on the far side In April, St. Gatien made his first appearance in the betting lists for The Derby, being backed at odds of 40/1. A correspondent for Bell's Life had little to say in his favour at this time, pointing out that the races he had won had been very poorly contested. The Sportsman noted that he was supposedly a difficult horse to ride, but admitted that his connections (his owner and trainer and their associates) were among the "shrewdest people on the turf" and would be unlikely to waste their money backing a horse with no chance.
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People writer Ralph Novak began his review with, "as a movie writer- director, William Peter Blatty is like David Lynch's good twin: he is eccentric, original, funny and daring, but he also has a sense of taste, pace, and restraint - which is by way of saying that this is one of the shrewdest, wittiest, most intense and most satisfying horror movies ever made". However, Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave a negative review. He wrote: "If Part II sequels are generally disappointing, Part IIIs are often much, much worse. It can seem as if nothing is going on in them except dim murmurings about the original movie — murmurings that mostly remind you of what isn't being delivered".
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Stoke, suffered the fewest defeats in the Second Division. The directors, who had used cash resources carefully, allowed Mather to build up his squad, and he duly pulled off three excellent deals, the returning Harry Davies from Huddersfield Town, goalkeeper Roy John and winger Joe Johnson. Johnson was perhaps the shrewdest of the three, for Stoke became aware that his club Bristol City were struggling for money and after a goalless draw at Ashton Gate in April 1932 Stoke paid Bristol a mere £250 for his signature. It was at Bury on 19 Match 1932 that Stoke introduced their latest local talent, Stanley Matthews who at the time was described at the time as a 'promising outside right'.
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He went on to become an international financier in London, establishing the investment bank that bore his name for more than a century and out of which the Fleming Collection of Scottish art and the Fleming Collection Gallery was born. A contemporary of J. P. Morgan and a close business associate and friend of Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Fleming was widely known and respected in financial circles on both sides of the Atlantic. He was one of the shrewdest investors of his generation and an acknowledged expert in the financing of American railroads. One of his less successful ventures was the 1908 takeover of the bankrupt works of Algoma Steel in Sault Ste.
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Schwarz was the literary and the national editor of The Atlantic from 2000 to 2013. In addition to writing, assigning, and editing prominent feature articles for the magazine, Schwarz ran, and wrote a regular column for, the Atlantic's cultural and literary department, which under his editorship expanded its coverage to include popular culture and manners and mores, as well as books and ideas. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Schwarz had "reshaped the venerable magazine's book section into the shrewdest, best- written and most surprising cultural report currently on offer between slick covers." The writers he recruited to the Books section included Perry Anderson, Caitlin Flanagan, Sandra Tsing Loh, Christopher Hitchens, Cristina Nehring, Joseph O'Neill, Terry Castle, Clive James, and B. R. Myers.
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Siringo called Butch Cassidy, "the shrewdest and most daring out law of the present age," and the Wild Bunch "kept a system of blind post offices all the way from the Hole-in-the-Wall in northern Wyoming to Alma in southern New Mexico, these post offices being in rocky crevices or on top of round mounds on the desert." In Siringo's words, "I closed the Union Pacific train robbery case after having traveled more than 25,000 miles by rail, vehicles, afoot, and on horseback, and after being on the operation constantly for about four years. The 'Wild Bunch' during these four years were pretty well scattered, many being put in their graves and others in prison." During that time, Siringo referred to both Tom Horn and Joe Lefors as friends.
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Simón Bolívar noticed the Guadalupan theme in these uprisings, and shortly before Morelos's execution in 1815 wrote: "the leaders of the independence struggle have put fanaticism to use by proclaiming the famous Virgin of Guadalupe as the queen of the patriots, praying to her in times of hardship and displaying her on their flags ... the veneration for this image in Mexico far exceeds the greatest reverence that the shrewdest prophet might inspire." In 1912, Emiliano Zapata's peasant army rose out of the south against the government of Francisco Madero. Though Zapata's rebel forces were primarily interested in land reform—"tierra y libertad" ('land and liberty') was the slogan of the uprising—when his peasant troops penetrated Mexico City they carried Guadalupan banners.Documentary footage of Zapata and Pancho Villa's armies entering Mexico City can be seen at YouTube.
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Peter Grant (5 April 1935 – 21 November 1995) was the manager of Led Zeppelin from their creation in 1968 to their break up in 1980. With his intimidating size ( and ) (at his peak weight) and confrontational manner, combined with his knowledge and experience, he drove strong deals for his band, and is widely credited with improving pay and conditions for all musicians in dealings with concert promoters. Grant has been described as "one of the shrewdest and most ruthless managers in rock history". Australian Broadcasting Corporation – Triple J Music Specials – Led Zeppelin (first broadcast 12 July 2000) Born and largely brought up in the south London suburb of South Norwood, England by his mother, he worked variously as a stagehand, bouncer, wrestler, bit-part actor, and UK tour manager for acts such as Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent and the Animals, before getting involved briefly in band management with the Nashville Teens and the Yardbirds.
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Altikriti has been a vocal supporter of the policies of Muslim Brotherhood parties across the Middle East and has been described as one of the shrewdest UK-based Brotherhood activists. In 2009, David Cameron, then leader of the opposition, made a statement during a Parliamentary Prime Ministers Questions, in which he alleged that TCF was a front for the Muslim Brotherhood. Despite this reputation, Altikriti states that he is not a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Anas Altikriti's father Osama Tawfiq al-Tikriti currently heads the Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni Islamist political party in Iraq which evolved from the Muslim Brotherhood. According to Al- Tikriti: > "'I was asked at a recent meeting with some of Washington’s wheelers and > dealers about what the American government should do with the Islamic > movements gaining prominence and claiming the limelight across the Arab > world, I answered simply: support them … unless we encourage them and offer > them an incentive, their own crop of hard-liners will have been proven > right".
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Digital Trends praised the Mi 9's performance, screen, design and in-display fingerprint sensor but remarked that the camera could be better and that the software needed improvement. Trusted Reviews had similar opinions, and was less impressed with the in- display fingerprint sensor and more positive of the camera, concluding that the Mi 9 had "the makings of one of the most worthwhile flagship smartphone purchases of the year". Digital Trends wrote that the Mi 9 was "a compelling, high performance smartphone that's sure to become one of the year's best" and "one of 2019's shrewdest smartphone purchases". DxOMark gave the Mi 9's camera an overall score of 110, with a photo score of 115 and a video score of 99, ranking it as their fourth best smartphone camera. DxOMark remarks that the phone "takes things to a whole new level, placing the Chinese company’s latest flagship model firmly into the big league of smartphone cameras—right up there with the heavy-hitters from Apple, Samsung, and Huawei".
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In a positive review for Rolling Stone magazine, music critic Stephen Holden viewed Breakfast in America as an improvement over the "swatches of meandering, Genesis-like esoterica" on Supertramp's previous albums, and called it "a textbook-perfect album of post-Beatles, keyboard-centered English art rock that strikes the shrewdest possible balance between quasi-symphonic classicism and rock & roll ... the songs here are extraordinarily melodic and concisely structured, reflecting these musicians' saturation in American pop since their move to Los Angeles in 1977." Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was less impressed, saying that the "hooky album" evokes "random grunts of pleasure" but lacks emotional substance because of "glib" lyrics and no "vocal personality (as opposed to accurate singing) and rhythmic thrust (as opposed to a beat)". Breakfast in America topped the US Billboard 200 for six weeks and became Supertramp's biggest selling album, while producing four hit singles: "The Logical Song", "Goodbye Stranger", "Take the Long Way Home" and the title track. Colin Larkin, writing in the Encyclopedia of Popular Music (2006), said that the "faultless" album "elevated" Supertramp to "rock's first division".
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