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...The routine, D’Elia tells me, was unbreakable....
...Elias Canetti, in Crowds and Power, says the drive to power is a will to survive everybody, and to survive above everybody. You end up killing everyone because, in a way, that guarantees your survival....
...Antoine visits Nadia, a psychiatrist, purporting to hear the dogs’ voices in an attempt to prove himself mentally unstable before taking brutal revenge on Elías....
...There are Nazis aplenty in Susan Elia MacNeal’s Mother Daughter Traitor Spy (Bantam $28/Random House £23) — but of the American kind....
...Michael Hill Smith, an Australian winemaker, was in London recently to show off his latest venture, MMAD, named after the initials of the four partners involved....
...In August, Michael Mann will publish Heat 2, a sequel to his hit 1995 crime drama....
...But there was no insulating him and brother Elias when they visited prison. “They were scared. And they saw that I wasn’t scared . . . In a way I’ve got more credibility now.”...
...Elías Matta, president of the energy commission of the Guaidó-dominated Venezuelan National Assembly, said that to rebuild the once widely admired PDVSA “will take eight to 10 years and cost $180bn to $200bn...
...Lawrence Michael Levine’s savagely comic, unrepentantly dark-hearted Black Bear follows a film-maker stuck in a creative cul de sac to a lakeside retreat run by a failed musician and his pregnant wife....
...Subsequently, Mr Barr also intervened in the case of Michael Flynn, Mr Trump’s former national security adviser, ordering the prosecution to be dismissed....
...Mr Barr has also faced claims he improperly moved to dismiss a case against Michael Flynn, Mr Trump’s former national security adviser. A court is currently weighing whether to grant the dismissal....
...“Turkey has these soft power advantages that it can exploit,” said Michael Tanchum, an expert on Turkish foreign policy at Spain’s University of Navarra....
...The second, John Elias, testified the antitrust division launched investigations of automakers and the cannabis industry for improper political and personal reasons....
...Elia Lattuga at UniCredit Bank in London observes: “When declines of over 25 per cent occurred in the S&P 500 in the past, the negative trend lasted for three months to over one year before a bottom was...
...You can email me on michael.mackenzie@ft.com and follow me on Twitter at @michaellachlan....
...“Is James Comey and his band of Dirty Cops going to apologise to General Michael Flynn (and many others) for what they have done to ruin his life?,” he tweeted....
...Timon’s hubris is further suggested by Michael Bruce’s jazzy-yet-melancholic score, which has the flavour of Greek rebetika music....
...The volunteer coach, Michael Taylor, shrugged off suspicions that Lawrence had done anything underhanded to suddenly field a team in the genteel Independent School League that featured a trio of footballers...
...His brother Elias — a leading figure in the Lebanese Forces, a Christian militia — was murdered in 1990 during the fratricidal power struggles of the Lebanese civil war....
...Perhaps most importantly in Mr Elia’s eyes, direct action brings them together with other workers....
...“We want our rights,” said Elias Farah, a postman of 15 years who was close to tears at the CWU event last week. “We will fight to the end”....
...Additional reporting by Hudson Lockett in Hong Kong and Michael Hunter in London For market updates and comment follow us on Twitter @FTMarkets...
...Once-loyal “Chavistas” such as former ministers Elías Jaua and José Vicente Rangel are increasingly critical....
...Bethlehem-based brothers Elias and Yousef Anastas, co-founders of Local Industries, describe their brilliantly colourful steel furniture as “anti-Orientalist” and “anti-folkloric”....
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