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...Dare I say ‘plus ça change’ . . .? Andrew Stokes Sai Kung, Hong Kong...
...In one instance last year, “the office received a letter addressed to the district attorney containing a small amount of white powder and a note stating: ‘Alvin: I’m going to kill you’”, lawyers from the...
...And I’m afraid that a very large number of people in this country believe they would not have.”...
...“I don’t see how it’s structurally feasible, I just see it as a bounce,” said another analyst who did not wish to be named. “Flow begets momentum but I just don’t know how long that lasts.”...
...“But I’m bi and I have a lot of queer friends; I thought maybe I could use wine as a medium to speak more about – and to – people like me.”...
...Ba Má moved to San Jose in 1978 with their sons and opened a Vietnamese grocery store they named Sài Gòn Mới. They survived a shooting on Christmas Eve and an attempted armed robbery in their home....
...Beth Hirsch, the US vocalist who sings “All I Need” and “You Make It Easy” on the album, wasn’t present....
...Because I should be in Florida right now, I should be in Georgia right now, I should be in a lot of places campaigning, but I’m sitting here,” he added. In a narrow sense, he may be correct....
...The case was brought by the office of Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg....
...I love the notion that we can keep a conversation going simply by adding “Voila quoi”. A shrug of the shoulders and a “je ne sais pas, moi!”...
...Eltis’s Britain’s Economic Problem: Too Few Producers (1978), General Sir John Hackett’s The Third World War (1978) and Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave (1980)....
...It was also an ideal backdrop to restate his claim that Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, was pursuing him at the expense of actual victims of crime and violence....
...For longer hikes we head over to Sai Wan at Sai Kung Country Park in the New Territories, which has stunning coastal views. Hong Kong is 75 per cent green and a lot of this is protected....
...One young woman excused from jury duty was overheard saying “I just couldn’t do it” while leaving the courtroom....
...“I’ll be here during the day and campaigning at night,” he said....
...For this feature film, he draws from the prophecies of futurologist Alvin Toffler who, back in 1970, talked about the collective psychological distress from the hyper-accelerated rate of societal change...
...There, he railed against “a crooked New York state judge just ruled that I have to pay a fine . . . for having built a perfect company”....
...“The legal papers are quite skimpy — if this was in federal court I would expect more of the theory of the case to be in there,” Hasen said....
...“If I start to lose business, I’ll have to accept them — at half their face value,” said Franco, a bakery owner who declined to give his last name....
...“I think he is a person of horrible moral character and treats women terribly,” she said. “I think he would be the worst decision.”...
...other side of a Plexiglas plate in the submersible Alvin,” Taylor said....
...I should note that the Zoroastrian religion’s name for the cult of charisma is, rather delightfully, Maga. jemima.kelly@ft.com...
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