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Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, a similar percentage of Russians would almost certainly support Putin's quest for a strong Russia. We would mistake this mood at our peril.


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HARRIET VAN HORNE On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hat...
RICHARD HENGIST HORNE The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more...
HARRIET VAN HORNE Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all
HARRIET VAN HORNE It's still shocking he could get himself into the mental state where he could walk into a jewelry st...
DAVE VAN HORNE All of us had known how hard the death of their son had hit them. Even prior to that, he had become ...
DAVE VAN HORNE He was the consummate professional; as good as anyone and better than most at broadcasting baseball....
DAVE VAN HORNE Tom took great pride in the fact he didn't miss a game. Like a lot of young broadcasters of the '60s...
DAVE VAN HORNE It wasn't just a love of the game but a love of the people in the game that he'll be remembered for....
DAVE VAN HORNE Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exem...
HARRIET VAN HORNE There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to of...
HARRIET VAN HORNE The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. A...
HARRIET VAN HORNE It seems to be the fashion nowadays for a girl to behave as much like a man as possible. Well, I won...
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