WASHINGTON — Gone is the private jet and the motorcade that swept him from the tarmac to the private hotel entrances.
This was the start of a 10-year walkabout that swept him from Sinai to the Himalayas, "the abode of the gods," he said.
He took the helm of the Booker in 2006 after a career that had swept him from literary editor of the Times to publishing director at Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
6 Milosevic Named Party Leader A characteristically defiant Slobodan Milosevic staged his political comeback, winning re-election as leader of his Socialist Party of Serbia and denouncing as a coup the popular uprising that swept him from power last month.
Mubarak, along with his interior minister, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison last year for failing to stop the killing of protesters in the revolt that swept him from power.
Drapers' Hall, Sun JA The dramatic baritone voice of Gregory Porter, the Grammy-winning American R&B, gospel and jazz singer, has swept him from the club circuit to the world's great concert halls in four packed years.
A characteristically defiant Slobodan Milosevic staged his political comeback today, winning re-election as leader of his Socialist Party of Serbia and denouncing as a coup the popular uprising that swept him from power last month.
And it's Marcos Baghdatis, the onetime Australian Open finalist, now ranked 27, groaning and complaining and panting like a puppy before a small band of fretting Cypriots on a faraway court, where Lukas Lacko, an obscure Slovak, swept him from the first round.
Egypt: The Saudi princes were shocked and dismayed by how quickly Washington abandoned its longstanding regional ally, President Hosni Mubarak, when the Arab Spring swept him from power in 2011.
Two years ago the long reign of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt ended when tidal waves of protests in Cairo swept him from nearly 30 years in power.
