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  • He fights hard; he has been called "Harper's pit bull."

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JANE TABER 2011

  • "The prime minister and his team did such a poor job relationship-building in China for the first few years of the Harper government," she said, calling Harper's early efforts "botched diplomacy."

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • The book is a reprint of her 1944 essay that first appeared in Harper's Bazaar.

    Archive 2009-04-01 ____Maggie 2009

  • As with Ahab and Ishmael, we encounter John Brown through the entranced observations of Owen, and, like Ishmael, Owen is essentially the last man standing (in Ishmael's case, swimming), surviving the raid on Harper's Ferry to, eventually, tell us the tale of what led up to this singular event.

    August 2009 2009

  • I cannot help but recall Prime Minister Stephen Harper's description of Israel's destruction of Lebanon in 2006 as "a measured response" to a border skirmish.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • A lot of chic people gave up the Thursday evening before their holiday weekend for this event: Anna Wintour and a few of her staff from Vogue; Stefano Tonchi of W Magazine; Carine Roitfeld, formerly of French Vogue; Tamara Mellon of Jimmy Choo; Stephen Gan of Visionaire and Harper's Bazaar.

    When Museum and Fashion Crowds Collide Marshall Heyman 2011

  • As with Ahab and Ishmael, we encounter John Brown through the entranced observations of Owen, and, like Ishmael, Owen is essentially the last man standing (in Ishmael's case, swimming), surviving the raid on Harper's Ferry to, eventually, tell us the tale of what led up to this singular event.

    Historical Fiction 2010

  • The designer's color palette is much remarked on: his use of turquoise and yellow, bullring red, a shade of cinnamon called "Balenciaga Brown" and a black so black, according to Harper's Bazaar in 1938, "it hits you like a blow."

    Fashion's Eternal Flame Laura Jacobs 2011

  • At the same time, Sydney Brooks, writing in America, in Harper's Weekly, said: ` You will not hear the socialists mentioned in Washington.

    Chapter 13: The General Strike 2010

  • She graced the pages of Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue throughout the 1950s and '60s.

    An Icon Uncovered 2011

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