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...The shadow chancellor likes to play up her wonkish tendencies, noting that she spent one Valentine’s Day evening with her civil servant husband watching a BBC Newsnight special on the Swedish banking crisis...
...When an emotional pay-off does come — as when Paul gives his father a Valentine’s card — it cracks overhead like a sonic boom....
...He was convinced, he says, that his friend Betty Autier’s blog — with 400,000 views a month when Mr Billon started his business — “could be of great interest for brands”....
...Last week collector Dean Valentine agreed to pay the hip painter Mark Grotjahn 5 per cent of what he had made reselling Grotjahn’s work, so settling a case that was about to come to court....
...On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square By Marshall Berman Verso, £10.99 Berman quotes his mother Betty encouraging the family: “Let’s take a bath of light.”...
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