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...Occasionally the influence is clear, as in J Robert Lennon’s 2021 novel Subdivision, in which a woman checks into a mysterious small-town guesthouse....
...The Tracksmith Amateur Mile, a one-mile race, was launched in London by Boston-based running label Tracksmith in 2022. It makes a 10K seem a laborious schlep. And a marathon? Forget it....
...The $1.4bn-grossing film won only one award, for best song, which went to Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas O’Connell, for “What Was I Made For?”....
...There is one massive exception to all this: K-pop and J-Pop. In the world of Korean pop, superstardom is very much still in business....
...Eyman introduces you to Chaplin’s friends (Sergei Eisenstein, Winston Churchill, the mobster Mickey Cohen), his foes (J Edgar Hoover, the Nazi party, gossip columnist Hedda Hopper) and his family: an absent...
...She joins the ranks of Olivia Rodrigo, Megan Thee Stallion and Billie Eilish. Almost every winner of best new artist is now a household name....
...The 359,000 pages of planning applications and £800mn spent on the Lower Thames Crossing would suggest that construction for the new 14-mile road and tunnel to the east of London was well under way....
...If we escaped the foot traffic on the main Dales Way — an 80-mile waymarked footpath from Ilkley to Bowness-on-Windermere in Cumbria — he said he’d show me how this sliver of wild country still felt like...
...Investors rewarded the group with an almost 70 per cent rise in the share price over the past 12 months, vastly outpacing peers J Sainsbury and Tesco....
...At Bonfield, which is located in the tiny Dorset village of Thorncombe, about 10 miles from Lyme Regis, owners Cameron Short and New Zealand-born Tristram, along with their three children, have carved out...
...Trump; 2013 — Donald J. Trump; 2022 — Donald J. Trump; 2023 — Donald J. Trump. This year’s Super Bowl has a distinctively Trumpy flavour too....
...Pros will take to the hard courts of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens....
...With a 280-nautical-mile range, room for four adults to sleep at a squeeze and a generously proportioned forward cabin complete with separate bathroom and stand-up shower, the Torpedo is a capable cruiser...
...Isabel Schnabel, the most hawkish member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, warned that the “last mile remains a concern” in the fight against inflation and that cutting rates too soon risked...
...In fact, the deal that set tongues wagging in the Square Mile this week was the combination of mid-cap brokers Panmure Gordon and Liberum (Lex gave its take on the defensive deal here)....
...Cherries that survive the 8,000-mile journey from the UK are the treat of a lifetime....
...LeftField remains one of my favourite local places; it’s a small and friendly family-run seafood restaurant overlooking The Meadows – the parkland where I walk my Australian Cattle Dog, Billie....
...While PLA Navy aviators practised take-off and landing on the Liaoning just over 700 nautical miles off the Chinese coast in May last year, the carrier pushed that range to 1,300 nautical miles during its...
...Its freight trains run over more than 32,000 miles of track. Its utilities provide power to 13mn customers and in Geico it owns one of the largest insurers in the country....
...In Wavewalker, the storm-filled story of her decade-long childhood 50,000 nautical mile sailing odyssey with her parents from Plymouth in England to the south Pacific, Suzanne Heywood asks not only why they...
...The survey, conducted for the Des Moines Register and NBC News by veteran Iowa pollster J Ann Selzer, echoed trends seen in other state and national surveys, which have consistently showed Trump miles ahead...
...The first guest to arrive is Ignatius J Reilly, John Kennedy Toole’s elephantine protagonist....
...One of the most famous ones that I did is the Narrows, Zion Narrows, which is about, I forget, something like 80-mile hike through the river. Beautiful....
...Because, like, you know, I just watched The Mother, which is why J. Lo is so heavily on my mind. J. Lo is 54 years old right now. In the movie, Diane Keaton is 56....
.../ From J F Siebert, Shetland, UK...
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