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...Mark Ravenhill’s two-hander Ben and Imo (at the RSC’s Swan Theatre), about Holst’s collaboration with Benjamin Britten as he struggled to complete his 1953 opera Gloriana, underlines her brilliance and also...
...Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet met on Sunday and Monday but has not said how the country will react....
...George W Bush, the former president, said of Biden in a video clip obtained by Axios: “The administration started off on the right foot”....
...A banquet at Delmonico’s features a vast lake created in the middle of the massive table, complete with four beautiful white swans — which break into fights between courses....
...Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...DeSantis said that, as president, he would tell Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “finish the job once and for all with these butchers Hamas”....
...Letter in response to this article: Pakistan’s power problems were a ‘black swan’ event / From Khurram Dastgir-Khan, Minister for Power, Islamabad, Pakistan...
...Peace efforts by the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Barack Obama all failed. So did the Trump administration’s effort to find a settlement without engaging the Palestinians....
...Additional contributions by Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...“I was doing Swan Lake outdoors in the Circus Maximus,” he says, gesturing to the huge windows at one end of the atelier, which overlook the field in which the ancient Roman stadium stands....
...They were happy with the latter under George W Bush and Donald Trump....
...Like George W Bush on Iraq, Obama wasn’t much interested in the advice of regional experts....
...The “road map” devised by Tony Blair and George W Bush in 2003 was never followed....
...It was right around 2012, the fever pitch of the Iran nuclear sanctions episodes, back when Benjamin Netanyahu had his nuclear risk charts that he was trotting out to whoever would listen to him....
...For a while it seemed as if Rambert was going to stick to a textbook combination of late-20th-century modern and new commissions, but Benoit Swan Pouffer, artistic director since 2018, has taken a sudden...
...Benjamin Tallis, a senior research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, says that such commitments have an additional benefit for the US....
...“The market for historic works of digital art is gaining steady momentum,” says Benjamin Kandler, project lead for digital art at Phillips in London....
...Debuts and swan songs are a recipe for cheers and tears and both were served at the Royal Opera House last week at the latest revival of Swan Lake....
...The elegant sci-fi Swan Song might almost be a period piece, so old-school is its vision of the future....
...Berenberg’s research on Darktrace exceeds even Jefferies for bullishness, with analyst Benjamin May’s current share price target of 600p the second-highest in the City....
...But they later learnt, via a text message, that the billionaire had dumped Swan in late June....
...Her father is former vice-president Dick Cheney, who masterminded the Iraq war under George W Bush. She is also unimpeachably conservative. Yet she has become anathema to Republicans. Her crime?...
...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...
...President George W Bush subsequently announced plans to reconstruct the country, while in 2003 his defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld declared that “major combat” was over....
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