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Chambers, in other words, is one of the most controversial Americans of the last half-century, his life a story rife with histrionic tableaux, profound ideological warfare, and high-level scandal.
La Repubblica of Rome Monday described Netanyahu in a front-page comment as "the worst of all the heads of government that the Jewish state has had in its half-century of existence."
USAT , the WP and NYT report that Clinton, in his speech in New York City to the Council on Foreign Relations, called the current situation "the biggest financial challenge facing the world in a half-century."
A half-century later, Austen's great-nephew wrote a classically priggish memoir that cast Jane as the perfect Victorian lady, a superwoman of piety and self-denial.
Capital of the Shang Dynasty 3,000 years ago, Anyang has fascinated and rewarded archaeologists for the past half-century.