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    Will Lord Rothermere be Britain’s most powerful media mogul?

    The Daily Mail owner has the Telegraph titles in his sights as part of a long-held ambition to create a dominant stable of rightwing newspapers

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  4. Adam Sandler and George Clooney in Jay Kelly.

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  2. Pharoah Sanders, left, and Sonny Sharrock performing in Berlin, 1968.

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  3. Hymnal … Lukas Frank AKA Storefront Church.

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  4. Nigel Yang and Jonnine Standish of HTRK.

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    The books of my life
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