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...She can do whatever she wants with the ball, as she demonstrated this summer at the Women’s World Cup....
...They just call balls and strikes. But frankly, they’re not....
...Earl De La Warr is the “proprietor of the village pub”....
...2nd Avenue Deli, New York Abe Lebewohl founded the 2nd Avenue Deli in 1954 on a corner of the East Village....
...The neighbourhood’s appeal is in the “combination of village life coupled with easy access into central London”, says Ashley Wilsdon at Middleton Advisors....
...V-10 Terrazzo Pierre Pekin, €125, veja-store.com Rock the kaftan Pippa Holt’s cult brand of holiday-wear now offers fabric belts and children’s kaftans....
...The outpouring of love for Mr Balls is proof that politicians can be liked. Alas, to the disappointment of all his fans, there was no surprise announcement of a return to Parliament....
...Ryan Giggs is deftly poised in the yoga posture of adho mukha svanasana: an inverted V-shape known to lunch-break yoga devotees as the “downward-facing dog”....
...“Senator, with all respect, the ball’s in your court,” he said. “ …If you wish to have more disclosure, pass a law.”...
...home village so that he could take shopping trips to Paris from his “Versailles in the Jungle”....
...Astor v Vanderbilt: battle of the belles Even prominent society figures of New York’s Gilded Age were not above displays of petty one-upmanship, writes Georgina Varley....
...As bat first hits ball, I venture a conversation about Europe with a broad-shouldered man in his forties....
...It also hosted the unforgotten England v Argentina match of the 1998 World Cup....
...Argentina, a serious contender for victory in 1966, tried to fit in a training session at the England team’s camp in the Shropshire village of Lilleshall but, writes Jonathan Wilson in Anatomy of England...
...So Shakespeare wrote a speech for another play in that year of 1599: Henry V, in which the day of Crispin and Crispinian is reclaimed for God, for King Harry, England and St George....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Golders Green Road also had survivors from the traditional, bosky suburban village it had long been: flower shops, tailors; the kind of groceries where the assistants stuck money into whizzing overhead pneumatic...
...of New York’s Village Voice....
...It is, in fact, a perfect match, as the author of Darkmans unleashes her powers of observation to reveal the inherent weirdness and the seething viciousness of English village life....
...French cricket used to be just a game for children, played with a tennis ball on country-house lawns....
...the Dalai Lama, and Nino Kirtadzé’s Durakovo: Village of Fools, a portrait of life in Putin’s Russia that was garlanded at Sundance....
...Instead, it’s the amateur game of Irish villages on Sunday afternoons....
...Far more significantly, it has spread within India, from the urban bourgeoisie to the villages, who had hardly heard of the game until TV belatedly arrived....
...As a kid I played against them in the dunes of his home village of Katwijk on the Dutch coast. I respected and feared the Kuyt type but I never imagined Liverpool Football Club signing one....
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