Hints and tips:
...thought I had, until Harley-Davidson recently offered me a fortnight’s loan of its craftily named Freewheeler, a luxury trike powered not by feeble, four-year-old legs but by one of Milwaukee’s finest V-Twin...
...There were also cheesy 1970s eruptions of garish colour: a doe-eyed Bambi in the snow and kittens beside Christmas trees....
...On screen his golden-boy aura became more interesting, the more his characters showed their tarnish....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...His father owned a Norton – and photographed him astride it as a very small boy. “I had the crash just a few months after buying the Norton, which was my first bike,” he recalls....
...“We were like a car company trying to build a Formula One racer,” says Kopp....
...A woman and a small boy take the table next to ours. She casts surreptitious glances at Benedetti as if trying to place her in her mind. The boy swings his legs and complains loudly about the food....
...“The government will continue to bring the cases it’s traditionally brought and will have more certainty they will survive judicial scrutiny,” said John Zach, a former prosecutor and now a partner at Boies...
...Museums are holding special shows, from Performing for the Camera at Tate Modern to Paul Strand at the V&A, while many commercial art galleries have put on photography: for instance, Shigeo Anzaï at White...
...DraftKings retained Boies, Schiller & Flexner, the firm of star trial lawyer David Boies, who has represented the National Football League and the National Basketball Association players’ union, as well...
...Low interest rates have sparked renewed interest in stamp collecting, often thought to be a pastime for boys, geeks or canny pensioners....
...News organisations across the world received a fax in 2009 from an organisation called Arabian Peninsula Group announcing a $49.50-a-share bid for US car stereo maker and Essex boy-racer staple Harman International...
...First job: Running businesses as a paper boy and selling his own horseracing tip sheet, aged 13. That same year, he filed his first tax return, claiming his bicycle as a $35 tax deduction....
...The story for Hombre was published in 1961, when Leonard was moving into crime writing, mingling his existing style with the urban vernacular of George V Higgins, the Boston-based author of The Friends of...
...Our boys made the evening that much memorable by giving us a 15-10 win over our friends from the city!...
...The case (now called FCC v. Fox Television Stations et al) was appealed to the US Supreme Court, where it was debated on Tuesday....
...But boy, how life has changed....
...Then there’s Bill Gates, who still occasionally favours the V-neck jumpers and open-neck button-downs of his early years but generally tends to adopt a suit-and-tie route when speaking in public – increasingly...
...Act V. Manhattan and Washington. The fool is exposed: his parcels are empty. He is banished. King Sandy, his reputation tarnished, is deposed....
...The latest round in the heavyweight Viacom v YouTube slugfest has clearly gone to Viacom. Google fought to keep evidence filed in Viacom’s copyright infringement case sealed, but failed....
...He no longer owns Idol and five years ago sold his company, 19 Entertainment, to media group CKX Inc....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...His ambitious target was dismissed as a boy racer’s fantasy – until France Telecom, Orange’s parent company, last month unveiled plans to merge its UK business with T-Mobile, Britain’s fourth-largest mobile...
...Call it what you will — but it’s more L-like than V....
...I feel guilty sitting amidships changing sides now and again with a tack or a gybe, but Josse and the boys are doing well without us....
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