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...Your floor looks bare and hard, which wouldn’t work in my home because the kids like to jump off the couch and I’m anxious about concussions....
...After eight months moping on a friend’s couch, Kagan realised he had been “liberated” by his failure. “It lit a fire under my ass to get going on my own,” he writes....
...Lilah RaptopoulosShout out to John Grisham. Andrew DicksonYeah. Well, I mean, John Grisham. We need to talk about John Grisham....
...They included the apparent source of so much foreign currency — the president said the funds were payment by a Sudanese businessman for a herd of cattle — and concealment of the cash in a couch....
...John le Carré took months to construct the opening of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)....
...died in Oxford at the age of 82, gave as tutor and then adviser to multiple Latin Americanists and diplomats, some spies and several Colombian presidents — including Álvaro Uribe, who once slept on the couch...
...English people still fall into paroxysms of anxiety as to whether they should say “couch” (non-U) or “sofa”, or “mirror” (non-U) or “looking-glass.”...
...Channel hopping suits bored couch potatoes. But it does no favours for a broadcaster such as ITV....
...Wood-panelled walls lined with leather-bound books, a pile of logs by the fireplace and a plush leather couch give the chambers a cosy feel....
...A keen thrifter, she has filled her home with midcentury furniture and charity-shop finds, including vases, sets of china and a painting by the Australian artist John Brack....
...But there are some smart ideas in this adaptation (by David H Bell, Paul T Couch and Curt Wollan)....
...John Hanke: Yes . . . I think that the transition to spatial computing is one of those big, fundamental changes....
...Get off your couch and do what? Put down your phones and do what? Vote. Vote for Josh Shapiro. Vote for John Fetterman.” But even Obama’s fiercest supporters acknowledge his star power has its limits....
...He frequently slept on the couch in his office and, over several months, put on 35lb....
...We asked Rick Palacios of John Burns Real Estate Consulting what has driven the homebuilder rally....
...John Lewis had an amazing project a few years ago where it was taking older people to become wine experts in the supermarkets and they weren’t taking them from John Lewis, they were taking them from other...
...John Strand, a model and singer, was one of them. He sent her $75. “I was making zero and couch surfing for the last 10 years, so that was a lot of money,” Strand says....
...Colonel Moutarde wool socks, €10 Marco Zanini plastic laminate, metal and fabric Dublin couch, 1981, €10,850....
...A new biography, Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, by John Preston, published last year, brings the number of books about the late publishing magnate to at least 12....
...That was John Major’s great success in 1992, to make it seem like a new government. That was Gordon Brown’s great failure in 2007....
...Lewis, who finds himself repeatedly drawn to the couch as if by a magnet, talks about his childhood....
...Strick, 35, describes himself as a “couch analyst” who worked in corporate law, then joined the Australian military....
...John’s wandering eyes cause him to drift away from his wife and into a series of other women’s arms, with tragic consequences....
...Instead, the initial questions might be: did the person seem like a couch potato? What sort of hobbies might they have? Did they seem funny or serious? Would they wash their socks?...
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