The possibility of such a thing was suggested back in 1930 in Carl Van Vechten's "Parties," an incisive satirical novel about Prohibition-era New York.
That forecast was more optimistic than the company had suggested back in April, and much higher than most analysts had been expecting to hear.
Possibly the most unlikely endorsement came from Peter Mandelson who suggested, back in 1992, that Hardie would have felt "rather pleased" with New Labour's changes.
What is now reported about Saddam's deceptions of his generals regarding Iraq's military capacities, I recall, was suggested back in 2003, with speculations about the reasons that seem now to be corroborated by more definite knowledge.
When Ed Miliband suggested back in September that construction firms who hoarded land instead of building on it would now have to use it or lose it, Boris Johnson called it "Mugabe-style expropriations".
Peter Gelb, the Met's general manager, said this week that the machine would be back, but probably not as soon as he had suggested back in 2010, before its debut that year: he had told an interviewer that the Met was considering a revival of the "Ring" cycle in 2016 or 2017.
The news may be a hoax, but such a commission doesn't feel far off, with The Atlantic suggesting back in April that Frozen was in fact a veiled gay narrative, exploring the struggles faced by members of the LGBT community.
The idea that a good Supreme Court justice merely applies the law, as Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Sonia Sotomayor both asserted at their confirmation hearings, misses something important about the nature of the Supreme Court's work, Ms. Kagan suggested back in 1995, proposing a thought experiment.
I was hoping to be able to check it out this month as a rumor suggested back in March.
