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...It has lasted well, a serious, modern, robust and workmanlike place fostering intense creativity, building on the brick architecture of the Albert Hall and the bays of Kensington’s mansion blocks....
...Albert Bourla, Pfizer chief executive, said the company is moving as quickly as possible in its efforts to get the potential treatment into the hands of patients....
...It reminds me of something Gore Vidal said, in fact: “It’s not enough that I succeed. I want to see my friends fail.” Though, saying that, how many of them were ever his “friends” is unclear....
...Kensington Gore, London SW7 (020-7589 8212; royalalberthall.com). savewildtigers.org; September 18-October 14....
...screams the wall text for Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, the first of seven operas under the spotlight in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new show Opera: Passion, Power and Politics....
...Jonathan Chait argues that Trump is not, contrary to his campaign’s argument, like Al Gore in 2000. Here’s the FT View on Trump’s remarks. The debate saw a more subdued Trump out of the gate....
...I sit alone at a reproduction antique table under a fake chandelier in the dining room at the Gore Hotel in Kensington. There is no sign of Jonathan Franzen; nor of anyone else....
...I work at Gore Farm in Dorset but also in London. What would you like to own that you don’t currently possess? A Leonardo drawing. What’s your biggest extravagance?...
...Big writers tackle big subjects: Gore Vidal on Abraham Lincoln, or Lodge’s own novel about HG Wells....
...When Charles Gore, the chief executive of the Hepatitis C Trust, was diagnosed in 1995, doctors simply didn’t know what to tell him. “‘Try not to drink too much,’” was the advice he got....
...(Al Gore, another Harvard, allowed himself to grow fat only after leaving politics.)...
...I passed the Albert Hall and the last strands of folks leaving a concert as a ripple of laughter stretched across Kensington Gore....
...brief for painting a no-holds-barred cavalry clash of unparalleled ferocity, stressing that all the tangled violence and agony of mass slaughter must be evoked, with no part of the ground unslaked with gore...
...“Now Apple’s big, and people see it as arrogant,” former US vice-president and Apple director Al Gore told Isaacson while Jobs was at his peak....
...This week we have Let Me In, a vampire gore drama adapted from Sweden’s Let the Right One In and directed by Matt Reeves, who made the sci-fi monster epic Cloverfield....
...Albert Einstein famously remarked: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”...
...Boy meets girl; girl meets ghoul (Nazi variety); girl informs on ghoul; boy meets ghoul and spills gore; gore gets more…Ole Christian Madsen directs with crisp conviction, however, and strong crescendi....
...It oozes sinister descriptions – “lips with cracks that looked like slices from an axe” – and is rich with gore....
...Visvim’s conservative pea coats, for example, are made from hand-woven tweed but coated in Gore-Tex....
...Not all of the banners scattered throughout the Sheraton quote people with links to the Bush administration, however - others quoted include General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s military leader, and Albert...
...No fewer than four worthies lined up to introduce Gore’s brief speech. One of them, a Swedish academic whose name escapes me, managed to liken Gore to both Albert Schweitzer and Gandhi....
...Reminding me of his southern Baptist upbringing in Tennessee (where his father, Albert Gore Senior, was a Democratic senator for nearly two decades), he quotes the Bible: “The earth is the Lord’s and the...
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