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...US attacks Viktor Orbán: David Pressman, the US ambassador to Hungary, accused the country’s leader of running a “fantasy foreign policy”. 4....
...The title track, composed by the leader’s late father, violinist John Blake, switches from edgy counterpoint to urgent walking bass swing....
...“The polling is pretty clear that younger Republicans care more about climate change,” said Philip Rossetti, a senior fellow at the free-market R Street Institute think-tank....
...Reuben Brigety, US ambassador to South Africa, told local media on Thursday that the US believed weapons and ammunition were loaded on to the Lady R, a Russian vessel under sanctions that docked at Simon...
...Lakecia Benjamin draws on the intense wellspring of classic John Coltrane and adds the sonics and history of her main instrument, alto sax....
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...She was lobbying — lobbying the King of France, lobbying Elizabeth and others through the French ambassador.”...
...Wilkins stands in the lineage of Kenny Garrett and John Coltrane, but he articulates with the rhythmic awareness of hip-hop and R&B, and pulls the elements together in his own unique way....
...Brandee Younger is the go-to harpist of her generation, with credits ranging from veteran saxophonist Pharoah Sanders to John Legend, Drake and drummer/producer Makaya McCraven....
...Anna learned diplomacy from her father, who was the British ambassador to Yugoslavia before becoming Queen Elizabeth’s deputy private secretary in 1985....
...Even 10 years after his death, sitarist Ravi Shankar remains India’s greatest cultural ambassador....
...Zappa drank it all in — the absurdity, not the poison — eventually turning his observations into music which combined Varèsian inaccessibility with R&B bass lines, and sharply satirical lyrics....
...The Cuban system is in slow-motion collapse, but Cuban biotech and pharma R&D has much to offer.”...
...First track “Liberia”, written by John and featuring veteran alto saxophonist Gary Bartz, opens with a searing sax duet before settling into fast walking-bass swing....
...John Adams, America’s first vice-president, was mocked as “His Superfluous Excellency”. A former holder of the job said it was “not worth a bucket of warm piss”....
...“It is pretty clear that this year has not gone to plan at all as far as Putin is concerned,” says one foreign ambassador in Moscow....
...The programme was, essentially, a customised version of its general coaching method, built on insights developed by PCI’s co-founder, the late Sir John Whitmore....
...The original album’s bassist and drummer Chris Lawrence and John Marshall completed the bill....
...He explains that we are living through a period of extraordinary technological change, which he describes as an era of rapid evolution, or “r-evolution”, as he has dubbed it....
...Spearheading plans for New IP is Richard Li, chief scientist at Futurewei, Huawei’s R&D arm located in California....
...Michael Leuchten, a research analyst at UBS, credited Soriot with “giving the organisation its R&D mojo back”....
...One of them, though, arrived fresh from making a €33bn merger proposal that, by kick-off, was reverberating from Detroit to Tokyo, and introduced Fiat Chrysler chairman John Elkann as a new face in the mega...
...Mr Bolton is a former US ambassador to the UN and member of the Bush administration known for his hawkish views on foreign policy....
...Now 52, Garrett’s angular phrases, rhythmic twists and razor-sharp articulation fuse the legacies of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane with the power of R&B....
...The International Energy Agency warned in 2017 that a faltering commitment to energy R&D was “a cause for concern”....
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