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...Occasionally the influence is clear, as in J Robert Lennon’s 2021 novel Subdivision, in which a woman checks into a mysterious small-town guesthouse....
...The Tracksmith Amateur Mile, a one-mile race, was launched in London by Boston-based running label Tracksmith in 2022. It makes a 10K seem a laborious schlep. And a marathon? Forget it....
...Eyman introduces you to Chaplin’s friends (Sergei Eisenstein, Winston Churchill, the mobster Mickey Cohen), his foes (J Edgar Hoover, the Nazi party, gossip columnist Hedda Hopper) and his family: an absent...
...The 359,000 pages of planning applications and £800mn spent on the Lower Thames Crossing would suggest that construction for the new 14-mile road and tunnel to the east of London was well under way....
...If we escaped the foot traffic on the main Dales Way — an 80-mile waymarked footpath from Ilkley to Bowness-on-Windermere in Cumbria — he said he’d show me how this sliver of wild country still felt like...
...Investors rewarded the group with an almost 70 per cent rise in the share price over the past 12 months, vastly outpacing peers J Sainsbury and Tesco....
...At Bonfield, which is located in the tiny Dorset village of Thorncombe, about 10 miles from Lyme Regis, owners Cameron Short and New Zealand-born Tristram, along with their three children, have carved out...
...Trump; 2013 — Donald J. Trump; 2022 — Donald J. Trump; 2023 — Donald J. Trump. This year’s Super Bowl has a distinctively Trumpy flavour too....
...With a 280-nautical-mile range, room for four adults to sleep at a squeeze and a generously proportioned forward cabin complete with separate bathroom and stand-up shower, the Torpedo is a capable cruiser...
...Its freight trains run over more than 32,000 miles of track. Its utilities provide power to 13mn customers and in Geico it owns one of the largest insurers in the country....
...Isabel Schnabel, the most hawkish member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, warned that the “last mile remains a concern” in the fight against inflation and that cutting rates too soon risked...
...In fact, the deal that set tongues wagging in the Square Mile this week was the combination of mid-cap brokers Panmure Gordon and Liberum (Lex gave its take on the defensive deal here)....
...While PLA Navy aviators practised take-off and landing on the Liaoning just over 700 nautical miles off the Chinese coast in May last year, the carrier pushed that range to 1,300 nautical miles during its...
...In Wavewalker, the storm-filled story of her decade-long childhood 50,000 nautical mile sailing odyssey with her parents from Plymouth in England to the south Pacific, Suzanne Heywood asks not only why they...
...The survey, conducted for the Des Moines Register and NBC News by veteran Iowa pollster J Ann Selzer, echoed trends seen in other state and national surveys, which have consistently showed Trump miles ahead...
...The first guest to arrive is Ignatius J Reilly, John Kennedy Toole’s elephantine protagonist....
...One of the most famous ones that I did is the Narrows, Zion Narrows, which is about, I forget, something like 80-mile hike through the river. Beautiful....
...Because, like, you know, I just watched The Mother, which is why J. Lo is so heavily on my mind. J. Lo is 54 years old right now. In the movie, Diane Keaton is 56....
.../ From J F Siebert, Shetland, UK...
...The case will be heard in a courtroom in the Alpine commune of Crans-Montana, thousands of miles from New York and São Paulo....
...“The ones we’ve sold are mostly within a mile of another pub.”...
...“He can basically be as populist, and as much of a culture warrior, as he wants,” said J Miles Coleman of the non-partisan University of Virginia Center for Politics....
...Sainsbury’s has sold 143.3 miles of bunting, which would be enough to stretch from Buckingham Palace to Sheffield....
...But it also hosts concerts and events, and this October “A-Wing”, where Troubles inmates were housed, will open its doors as a working distillery reviving J&J McConnell’s Irish Whisky, founded in 1776....
...Toyota has said its Mirai cars can get 350 to 400 miles of driving range on a full tank....
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