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...He had come to visit the places where, 200 years ago, John Constable painted some of his most famous pictures....
...In an early high-profile case, he prosecuted mobster John Gambino. As an assistant US attorney in Virginia, he was put in charge of the investigation into the 1996 Khobar Towers bomb in Saudi Arabia....
...– while The Listener’s John Sayer made comparisons with a popular TV series about a fictional educational establishment, saying, “Ask viewers about Grange Hill and they will tell you it is real....
...The office scenes are wholly convincing: it is one of the strengths of this novel that John Lanchester is effortlessly familiar with the workings of the City....
...In Golders Green, our oak panelled and stained-glassed synagogue had an air of late Victorian ecclesiastical grandeur about it: “wardens” in ceremonious top hats, installed in a special boxed-in pew at the...
...They talk to each other and give each other tips, [or] call each other if they see a traffic warden coming.” Even within the gang, there is a slight competition for location....
...In June 2008, a court granted the IRS permission to serve UBS with a “John Doe” summons that would identify US taxpayers with accounts at UBS in Switzerland who have elected to hide them from the IRS....
...Now that the deferred prosecution agreement has been reached in the criminal investigation, authorities are putting their resources into enforcing the so-called John Doe summons....
...The Justice Department said on Monday that it had filed court papers seeking permission to allow the Internal Revenue Service to issue a so-called “John Doe” summons on UBS....
...Fairness at work means fairness to the low paid and it is because of your efforts and the initial commitment of John Smith and then of Tony Blair that Britain now has a minimum wage; one that I am pleased...
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