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...Bob Iger came to play. He came with like seven announcements of new stuff that Disney’s doing....
...By the 1950s, the BG had developed an aura of near-impossibility, like climbing Everest or running a sub-four-minute mile — grails of endurance which, for some, overlapped....
...At 73, Dweck is trim and slight with a black bob and fringe....
...Longer than 10 marathons, and requiring a total ascent equivalent to one and a half Mount Everests, it is among the toughest races in the world....
...Last year she staged the NT’s superb revival of Tony Kushner’s epic Angels in America (which she likens to tackling Everest)....
...As an example of the former it would be hard to beat Bob Berman’s Boom! , a study of cataclysmic galactic events from the Big Bang onwards (Oneworld, March)....
...On May 20, he attempted to race up Mount Everest....
...Novices can ride a four-man bob, sitting between an experienced driver and brakeman. On the 1.7km course they will hit 135km/h and experience forces of 4G....
...One man walked in from the snow in plus-fours as though he were just heading up Everest with George Mallory (“Do you think I should bring a woolly, old boy?”)...
...In the background a chunk of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” plays quietly on a loop: “Yes, and how many deaths will it take . . . the answers, my friend, are blowin’ in the wind.”...
...“(The Democrats) know Republicans can elevate trivial issues to Everest heights,” Mr Cooper said of his colleagues in Congress. “But they are disappointed Mr Obama is not a better politician.”...
...Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis, Vintage, RRP£12.99 Davis retells the story of George Mallory’s doomed bid to conquer Everest – and uses it to examine...
...… M&B board move Bar-room chatter a few years back had Bob Ivell, the former director of Scottish & Newcastle and later chairman of woe-struck Regent Inns, as a candidate to run Punch Taverns’ managed...
...It was merely deeper than the height of Mont Blanc, not Everest. The reserves were smaller, too: the field is thought to hold only 50 million barrels....
...The culprit, designer Bob Crowley, shrugs his shoulders innocently....
...There seems to be something intrinsically funny about everything that the middle-aged man does, whether it is planning barbecues in the comfort zone of his back garden or plotting to climb Everest....
...Though North American-centric, it found room for the first conquest of Everest and female cross-Channel swimmer, and with neither involving a ball or hand-to-hand confrontation, was enough to alienate many...
...He owns the road Bob Diamond has already amassed £49m of Barclays shares and could earn a further £15.25m this year if he hits performance targets....
...Martha and Rufus Wainwright’s father, Loudon Wainwright III, was briefly touted as “the new Bob Dylan” in the US in the early 1970s (he wrote a song about it, “Talking New Bob Dylan”, in which he complained...
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