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...The God of Abraham also had a somewhat schizophrenic relationship with whales. In the King James Bible, they’re the first animals created in the book of Genesis when He concocts the universe....
...In a delectable reprise of his turn in Paddington 2, Grant savours every drop of faux-sincerity and scheming as he provokes a plot to depose him....
...More importantly, their practices can be read within a global context, thanks in large part to the multicultural collection that López Alonso has put together, where Olafur Eliasson sits next to Abraham...
...Linda Grant’s superb book chronicles the family’s history through almost a century in a compelling narrative about growing up and the inescapable pull of family secrets. A must-read....
...This week’s Working It podcast features a masterclass in schmoozing from Matt Abrahams, author of the forthcoming book Think Faster, Talk Smarter....
...The vast majority of that is the modern legacy of the railroad land grants....
...Officials hope that the ceasefire will pave the way for grants, loans and financing from international players, topping $10bn, or about 8 per cent of Ethiopia’s gross domestic product of $127bn....
...Take a break from the news What type of pistol did John Wilkes Booth use to shoot Abraham Lincoln? Try your hand at 30-across in one of our latest crossword puzzles....
...Last June, the EU refused to grant Georgia candidate status as it did Ukraine, citing the need for “de-oligarchisation”. But a sense of hope remains, and the country is speaking for itself....
...For any three-part answer, getting two right grants half a point....
...Brian Abrahams, analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said that given the mixed data on the drug, it was not hugely surprising that the EMA panel did not endorse Aduhelm....
...But the middle class is likely to balk at the tax rises needed to pay for this, or additional borrowing for larger grants. “We pay for all of this in other ways in the economy,” Abrahams says....
...(FT) A broken system Historically black colleges and universities in the American South are chronically underfunded, in part due to systemic inequities in the government’s land-grant programme....
...Within years, Grant was bankrupt and dead, having lost millions in a Utah silver mine fraud....
...“Many people who are in ICUs right now were eligible for the vaccine and they never took it,” said Abraham....
...This passed the Senate on June 10, the lower house on June 17, and was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on July 2....
...Perhaps the only inauguration to compare with the massive security surrounding Joe Biden’s was that of Abraham Lincoln in 1861....
...On a more heartening note, we hear of the young Ulysses S Grant’s own brief foray as Desdemona in 1845 in an am-dram Othello by his US army company....
...Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus — the right to appear before a court — during the Civil War, for example....
...Richard E Grant gives his best performance in decades as Jack Hock, an ageing Withnail of the kind the teetotal actor was born to play....
...Last year, Mr Trump said that Article II of the US constitution, which grants the president “the executive power”, gave him “the right to do whatever I want as president”....
...Caroline Abrahams, director of the Age UK charity, cautioned that the extra funding would only “buy time” and that a fundamental care reform plan was needed....
...Even under a household levy system, the BBC would never expect the government to grant German-style largesse....
...On Tuesday, Abraham Liu, president of Huawei’s EU office, said the “founding fathers of the US constitution would be alarmed when confronted with the actions of the Trump administration”....
...When tittle-tattlers warned Abraham Lincoln that General Ulysses S Grant was a heavy drinker, the president retorted: “Tell me the brand of whiskey Grant drinks and I’ll send a barrel of it to my other generals...
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