In every coffee shop, I was told, half the conversations were about politics.
The novel is told half in the first person, half in the third, and in some sense very little occurs.
They were told half the price difference was down to the weakness of the euro.
"Everybody appears to be telling half-truths, and that erodes confidence in the College Board," said Bruce J. Poch, vice president and dean of admissions at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.
(Richard Howarth, a veteran Ive lieutenant, soft-spoken and British, is considered "a badass, in terms of driving things," I was told, half-jokingly. "He's feared").
The way that history is taught in schools and universities is telling half a story, Olusoga believes.
It stated that Alamuddin's mother, Baria, was a member of Lebanon's Druze community and had been telling "half of Beirut" that she was against the wedding.
The paper reported that the mother of Amal Alamuddin, Clooney's fiancée, had been telling "half of Beirut" that she was unhappy that her daughter wasn't marrying a man from her own Druze community; there had been jokes, the Mail said, about killing the bride.
The Mail's report - published online on Monday and then in print on Tuesday in an amended form - said "close family friends" had told them that Baria Alamuddin had been "telling half of Beirut" her daughter "could do better".
The Mail's report, published online on Monday and then in print on Tuesday, in an amended form, said "close family friends" had told them that Baria Alamuddin had been "telling half of Beirut" that her daughter "could do better".
