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.... ★★★★☆ To March 10, sadlerswells.com The New York quadruple bill is strictly “returns only” for the rest of its cruelly short run....
...The triple bill was a useful showreel for their mastery of athletic solos, tricksy duets and tight-knit ensembles, but the choreography was no real match for their gifts....
...The PP has slowed down the passage of a controversial bill to grant an amnesty to Catalan separatists involved in a 2017 breakaway bid....
...The bill has yet to complete its passage through parliament. The amnesty was the price Sánchez had to pay to secure the parliamentary votes he needed to begin another term after the election....
...Alberto Núñez Feijóo, head of the conservative People’s party (PP), said the amnesty proposal was anti-constitutional and destroyed the principle of equality before the law....
...Sánchez’s party concluded that it would be politically and legally difficult to include acts of terrorism as defined in Spanish law in the amnesty bill....
...But Feijóo said that showed “a lack of respect for the Spanish people”, many of whom were struggling with expensive supermarket bills and rising mortgage costs....
...The two Catalan separatist parties are not part of Sánchez’s coalition, but he will need their votes every time he wants to pass a budget or bill....
...Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the PP, condemned the violence but also blamed Sánchez for it....
...Matt Bennett, a former adviser to Bill Clinton now at Third Way, a think-tank, said: “Joe Biden has lived in their lives for the past three years and Trump hasn’t for most people....
...But who would have predicted a Christmas-themed Darwin Nunez X Jim Royle mashup?...
...Chart du jour: Bills, bills, bills Germans generally prefer cash over cards or digital payments....
...FICTION JANUARYThe Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez (Virago)Hot on the heels of Michael Cunningham’s Day, fellow American Sigrid Nunez gives us her novelistic take on lockdown life during Covid — albeit in wilder...
...One goal is to repeal the transgender bill and a law on gender-based violence, which, according to Abascal, “betray and erase women”. But his push for change extends much further....
...Muñoz described the Vox proposal as “absolutely barbaric” and noted that the type of ultrasound it contemplated can even be harmful to a foetus....
...Its windfall tax bill for 2023 was €157mn, or 77 per cent of first-quarter profit....
...He has worked extensively with visual artists such as Bruce McLean and Tim Head, architect Will Alsop, sculptors Bill Woodrow and Juan Muñoz, and choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and William Forsythe...
...The Royal Ballet dusted off the family silver last weekend for a sublime triple bill of work by Frederick Ashton that reasserts the genius of their founder-choreographer....
...investments.Under Díaz Ayuso’s plan, individuals from outside Spain, including Spanish nationals returning from abroad, would be able to deduct 20 per cent of the value of new investments from their tax bills...
...Marianela Núñez as Princess Aurora and Vadim Muntagirov as Prince Florimund are simply sublime....
...After five months of wall-to-wall narrative favourites — Giselle, Nutcracker, Romeo and Swan Lake — the Royal Ballet has finally re-entered the 21st century with an underwhelming triple bill of works old...
...Court president Arturo Zaldívar had admitted he was caught by surprise when the measure was added to a judicial reform bill at the last minute last week....
...Dr Marcella Nunez-Smith, the head of the US president’s task force on Covid-19 health equity, told the Financial Times she was increasingly worried about the way online misinformation about coronavirus vaccines...
...The moment my flight from Florida touches the tarmac of San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín airport all the passengers start whooping. “I don’t know why we always do that,” says my neighbour....
...The 12-member team will reportedly include three co-chairs: Vivek Murthy, a former surgeon general; David Kessler, a former head of the Food and Drug Administration; and Marcella Nunez-Smith, associate professor...
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