Hints and tips:
...Keep an eye out for the region’s answer to Father Christmas, La Tante Arie, a local legend thought to be a reincarnation of charitable medieval countess Henriette de Montbéliard....
...Arié Alimi, a lawyer representing Bendriss’s widow, said in an interview that they welcomed the decision by prosecutors to file preliminary charges because it “recognised that the police shot at Mohamed...
...“He’d spend all his time there if he could.” The Christmases these villages celebrate are highly commercialised....
...Bookending the evening were Mozart’s G Major and Brahms’s D Minor violin sonatas. With Bax’s rich accompaniment, Kashimoto took full advantage of the elbow room he had been seeking earlier in the week....
...of Summer; Finzi’s Eclogue; Bantock’s The Pearl of Iran and The Seal Woman; Elgar’s Salut d’amour, the Enigma Variations, Cello Concerto in E Minor and the last movement of Symphony No. 1....
...William Bax, director of placemaking at Grosvenor and chairman of the Mayfair Forum, says: “We’ve seen more [restaurant] openings in the past two or three years than we’ve probably ever done . . ....
...I’d have suggested the glorious melody in Bax’s “Tintagel”. The artist Edward Monkton created a lovely image titled “The Pig of Happiness”....
...Arie Gluck, Israel: http://on.ft.com/KoHXKH Ben Ainslie, Great Britain: http://on.ft.com/KoHZT3 Billy Mills, USA: http://on.ft.com/KoI3SP Carla Marangoni, Italy: http://on.ft.com/KoI8Wn Derek Redmond...
...“It was the very first thing I’d ever won.” She took another medal for swimming the 50m backstroke, despite being the only competitor. “I’d never swum 50m before in my entire life. It was terrifying.”...
...I’m here for the sailing, not for the accolades, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t flattered when people say I should be knighted....
...“I’d raced in that much wind, but the steepness of the waves, that’s a whole different thing,” he recalls....
...“If I had the chance to go there, what I’d like to do is to count them. I don’t remember how many there are,” says Solís, whose goal is now to be crowned world professional heavyweight champion....
...“I returned home as the only gold medal winner in the delegation and at an official reception I was told that I brought from Melbourne 50 per cent honour and 50 per cent shame because I’d been running around...
...“Anywhere we went, if there was a piece of flat ground, I’d say, ‘Come on. Race me, Dad.’” At Eton, Pletts finished the 150m and burst into tears....
...When they were saying goodbye at the airport, Zátopek slipped Clarke a packet, and whispered to him not to open it until he’d left Czech airspace....
...“If you see him, tell him I’d love to welcome him here,” says Ms Hasson as we part....
...This issue of Le Monde D’Hermes is dedicated to it....
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