Crossette-Thambiah was born on 2 February 1897. He was the son of T. H. Crossette, principal of St. John's College, Jaffna. He was educated at the St. John's College. Crossette-Thambiah married Amy Ranita, daughter of S. C. Paul.
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Robert Rasiah Crossette-Thambiah was a leading Ceylon Tamil lawyer and Solicitor General.
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"Veteran journalist Barbara Crossette wins 2010 Shorenstein Journalism Award", Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, March 30, 2010.
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Crossette has written extensively on India, and has been accused of prejudice against the country.Aa Sagokia, "Barbara Crossette dumps on India", IndiaStar: A Literary-Art Magazine. Vamsee Juluri, author and Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, identified Indophobic bias and prejudice in Crossette's writings. Specifically, he accuses Crossette of libelling a secularist, pluralistic, liberal democracy and an ally of the United States as a "rogue nation" and describing India as "pious," "craving," "petulant," "intransigent," and "believes that the world's rules don't apply to it".
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According to Eliott-Drake (1911), he was the second son of Andrew PollexfenEliott-Drake, Vol.2, p.55, followed by Crossette of Stancombe Dawney in the parish of Sherford, Devon, by his wife Joan Woollcombe (born 1607),Vivian, p.803, pedigree of "Woollocombe of Pitton" a daughter of John Woollcombe (born 1577) (anciently "Woollocombe") of Pitton in the parish of Yealmpton in Devon,Biog of brother: Crossette, J.S., biography of Pollexfen, Henry (c.
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M. F. S. Pulle was the 17th Solicitor General of Ceylon. He was appointed on 1948, succeeding Hema Henry Basnayake, and held the office until 1950. He was succeeded by Robert Crossette-Thambiah.
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Crossette, Barbara. "Congress Is Impatient for South Asia Bureau". New York Times, December 26, 1991. . In February 2006 the bureau absorbed the Office of Central Asian Affairs from the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
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Crossette-Thambiah taught at St. John's College for a few years before joining the legal profession. He was called to the bar at Middle Temple on 5 October 1925. He was an advocate of the Supreme Court. He joined the Attorney-General's Department in 1926 as an Additional Crown Counsel.
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Sir William Whitmore, 2nd Baronet had represented Bridgnorth in the House of Commons ever since 1661 and was to do so until his death in 1699:Henning: Whitmore, Sir William, 2nd Bt. (1637–99), of Apley Park, Salop. – Authors: M. W. Helms / J. S. Crossette he regarded the borough seats as at his disposal. His brother, Sir Thomas Whitmore, had taken the second seat in a by-election in 1663, after a fierce contest, in which 182 new freemen were made in the six weeks before the poll.Henning: Bridgnorth – Author: J. S. Crossette There seems to have been similar chicanery on this occasion, as Wolryche submitted a petition complaining of manipulation by the bailiffs after his defeat, but it was not reported.
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According to Barbara Crossette, The New York Times South Asia bureau chief from 1988 to 1991: No evidence has come to light to prove a conspiracy, but there have been several theories variously implicating the United States and India as well as Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Zia also had high-level enemies within the Pakistani government.
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A shell containing several large stars that travel a short distance before breaking apart into smaller stars, creating a crisscrossing grid-like effect. Strictly speaking, a crossette star should split into 4 pieces which fly off symmetrically, making a cross. Once limited to silver or gold effects, colored crossettes such as red, green, or white are now very common.
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Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.856 John Sparke (1636 - 8 October 1680) of the Friary,Crossette in the parish of St Jude, Plymouth, Devon, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1677 to 1680.
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The Whitmores were both broadly acceptable to the court and Thomas especially was reviled by Shaftesbury,Henning: Whitmore, Sir Thomas (c.1642–82), of Bridgnorth, Salop. – Author: J. S. Crossette who was working for the exclusion of Charles II's Catholic brother, James, Duke of York from succession to the throne. Wolryche stood explicitly for the "country party," opposed to the court.
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Some have suspected the anti-Zia group al-Zulfiqar, led by Murtaza Bhutto, brother of Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani politician who would ultimately gain most from Zia's departure. Zia's son Ijaz-ul-Haq told Barbara Crossette a year after the crash that he was "101 percent sure" that Murtaza was involved. Benazir Bhutto suggested that the fatal crash might well have been an "act of God".
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Barbara Crossette (born July 12, 1939) is an American journalist. Now United Nations correspondent for The Nation, she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Foreign Policy Association. She was a writer on international affairs for The New York Times for many years.
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Wolryche was re-elected for Much Wenlock on 18 February 1681 and represented it in the so-called Oxford Parliament, which sat for just a week. Again he was accompanied by Forester, who was now deeply involved with Shaftesbury and the embryonic Whig party.Henning: Forester, William (1655–1718), of Dothill Park, Salop. – Author: J. S. Crossette He was once again named a member of the elections and privileges committee.
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According to Eliott-Drake (1911), he was the eldest son of Andrew Pollexfen (a younger grandson of John Pollexfen of Kitley in the parish of Yealmpton in DevonEliott-Drake; Vivian, pp.600-1) of Stancombe Dawney in the parish of Sherford,Eliott-Drake, Vol.2, p.55, followed by Crossette Devon, by his wife Joan Woollcombe, a daughter of John Woollcombe of Pitton in the parish of Yealmpton in Devon.
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Neena Gopal of the Gulf News of Dubai was also in the car, in the back seat with Chandrashekhar and a local party official. "A Chance To Be Near The People New Campaigning Style Put Gandhi In Crowds" by Barbara Crossette, New York Times, 22 May 1991, via Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 2010-07-19. When he reached a campaign rally in Sriperumbudur, he left his car and began walking towards the dais where he was to deliver a speech.
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His other daughter married Courtenay Croker (died 1740), of Lyneham, Yealmpton, MP for Plympton as a Whig from 1695 to 1702.Crossette, J. S., biography of Hillersdon, Richard (c.1639-1703), of Membland, Holbeton, Devon, published in History of Parliament, House of Commons 1660–1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983 On 30 August 1693 Richard Hillersdon of Membland signed a deed of release to Arthur Champernowne of Modbury, relating to the "Mannor of Lambside, messuage and barton of Membland, Pool Mills, Holbeton".
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" Each of the structure's floors is divided between a large room and a narrow stair hall (in a side-hall plan), which connects the two stories by an open dog-leg stairway. The large room on each floor has a paneled fireplace wall on its northern end. On the first floor of the clerk's office, the segmental-arched fireplace opening is bordered by a single crossette architrave. Pitts and Harding describe the wooden panelling on the fireplace wall as being "exceptional.
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John too chose to try his luck electorally at Much Wenlock. At the February elections, Sir George Weld had stood in for his son, John, who was tainted by his support for the now disgraced Earl of Danby, and had been elected alongside the increasingly radical William Forester.Henning: Much Wenlock – Author: J. S. Crossette Now Wolryche stood on slate with Forester, sharing electoral expenses, which totalled £124 9s. They used the same methods employed by their enemies, the Whitmores, having a large number of new burgesses enrolled.
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Juluri identifies these attacks as part of a racist postcolonial/neocolonial discourse used by Crosette to attack and defame India and encourage racial prejudice against Indian Americans.Vamsee Juluri, "Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room", HuffPost, March 18, 2010 (updated May 25, 2011). A 2010 article by Crossette in Foreign Policy magazine described India as a country "that often gives global governance the biggest headache.""The elephant in the room" An Indian journalist Nitin Pai, in his rebuttal,Nitin Pai, "Why India is no villain", Foreign Policy, January 7, 2010.
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Arms of Hillersdon: Argent, on a chevron sable three bull's heads cabossed of the field The Hillersdon family originated at the estate of Hillersdon in the parish of Cullompton, Devon,Crossette before the 14th century. By the 16th century they had become seated at Membland.Vivian, p.469, pedigree of Hillersdon of Membland Richard Hillersdon (c.1639 – 1703), of Membland, was an MP for Plympton Erle in 1679. He had one son and two daughters, but the son died in or before 1693, after which he appears to have conveyed Membland to his son-in-law Arthur Champernowne (1671/2-pre 1717)Vivian, Lt.Col.
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Known as the "Path of Light", this was the path that Gandhi took before being assassinated Rajiv Gandhi was campaigning for the upcoming elections in southern states of India. On 21 May, after campaigning in Visakhapatnam, his next stop was Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu. About two hours after arriving in Madras (now Chennai), Rajiv Gandhi was driven by motorcade in a white Ambassador car to Sriperumbudur, stopping along the way at a few other election campaigning venues."Assassination in India; Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated in bombing at campaign stop", by Barbara Crossette, The New York Times, 22 May 1991.
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He was a member of the American and British Economic associations, the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Library Association, and of the Century Club of New York. In 1911, he received from Mühlenberg College the honorary degree of LL.D. Professor Schwab's death occurred unexpectedly at his home in New Haven, January 12, 1916, after a brief illness from pneumonia. He was buried in Grove Street Cemetery in that city. On October 5, 1893, he was married in New Haven to Edith Aurelia, daughter of Samuel Sparks Fisher, upon whom Yale conferred an honorary degree in 1851, and Aurelia Safford (Crossette) Fisher.
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Robert Caro called it "an immensely valuable contribution to our understanding of one of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century..." The American Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, writing in The Sunday New York Times Book Review, observed: "A superb book that reconstructs this drama with great lucidity and illuminates its contemporary relevance." The former NY Times UN correspondent, Barbara Crossette, called the book "the classic history of the founding of the UN". It won the 2004 Harry S. Truman Book Award. In 2007, with his brother, Andrew, he edited his father's Journals 1952-2000 Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (2007) which covers Schlesinger's life through the second half of the twentieth century.
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Crossette was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the author of So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas (1995) and The Great Hill Stations of Asia (1998). The latter was a New York Times notable book of the year in 1998. Among her awards are a 1992 George Polk award for her coverage of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, a 2008 Fulbright Prize for her contributions to international understanding and the 2010 Shorenstein Prize for her writings on Asia, awarded jointly by the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia–Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, part of the Kennedy School of Government.
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In 1997, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan announced a series of reforms at the world body, including the creation of the position of deputy secretary-general to handle many of the administrative responsibilities which had previously been the responsibility of the secretary-general. Fréchette was offered the position and accepted and has been responsible for overseeing numerous reforms at the UN. While at the United Nations, Fréchette – working with her U.S. counterpart Madeleine K. Albright, among others – was pivotal in devising a peacekeeping operation for Haiti with the return from exile of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1994.Barbara Crossette (January 13, 1998), French Canadian Is a U.N. Chief's First Right-Hand Woman New York Times. In 2005, after being criticized by former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker for failed management of the Iraq Oil-for-Food Program, Fréchette announced her resignation.
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In August 1980, while serving as ambassador to Lebanon, where he had opened links to the PLO, Dean was the target of an assassination attempt, which he believed was directed by Israel.US Envoy Writes of Israeli Threats By Barbara Crossette, March 31, 2009O'Ballance, Civil War in Lebanon (1998), p. 111.New book gives credence to US ambassador’s claim that Israel tried to assassinate him in 1980, Philip Weiss, 22, 2018, Mondoweiss According to him: Dean's suspicions that Israeli agents may have also been involved in the mysterious plane crash in 1988 that killed President of Pakistan, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, led finally to a decision in Washington to declare him mentally unfit, which forced his resignation from the foreign service after a thirty-year career. Later he was rehabilitated by the State Department, given a distinguished service medal and the insanity charge was confirmed to be phony by a former head of the department's medical service.
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On June 15, 1990, Barbara Crossette, a former New York Times correspondent and current member of the Council on Foreign Relations, reported on the work of Justice Farooqi in the years following the deployment of "thousands of Indian troops and paramiliary forces" in Kashmir: > "In Srinagar, Mufti Bahauddin Farooqi, a former chief justice of the Jammu > and Kashmir High Court, and his son, [Mufti] Showkat Ahmed Farooqi, a > lawyer, have begun documenting allegations of human and civil rights > violations against Kashmiris. Talking about their work in an interview at > Justice Farooqi's home, they say they focus on both the state administration > and on the array of federal forces deployed here: the Indian Army, the > paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force, the Border Security Force, the > Indo-Tibetan Border Patrol, National Security Guards and various > intelligence agencies. Troops in Srinagar alone have commandeered at least > 15 hotels as well as guest houses and private homes. Justice Farooqi said > the armed forces were sent to Kashmir in contravention of Jammu and > Kashmir's special status in the Indian Constitution" .
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