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...morning in February 2012, a jack-knifing trailer truck on an Israeli-controlled (“Area C”) highway north of Jerusalem flipped an old bus carrying Palestinian pupils from a private elementary school, Nour al-Huda...
...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
...Apart from playing with some of London’s prominent jazz musicians, including saxophonist Nubya Garcia, pianist Al MacSween and drummer Moses Boyd, he has so far relied on what he calls his “mum’s test”....
...Over a bistro lunch, he meets a “bibulous retired dentist” and urges this Le Pen-voting sceptic to drink to Europe, “quand même et malgré tout”....
...welcome some 300 visitors, many of them retirees (apparently the teenagers were still recovering from a disco the night before), and we sat down, nodding our “bonjours” over the music from Marie-Pierre et...
...Those in on the hoax at Modern Painters magazine, where Boyd was on the editorial board, included the musician David Bowie, who hosted a launch party while Boyd himself created Tate’s art....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...Liontrust non-executive directors Emma Howard Boyd and Quintin Price have quit over a row about the chair’s 12-year tenure on the board....
...simmering conflict between Muslim and Christian powers on land and sea resolved into a stand-off between Suleyman — heir to his father Selim I’s string of conquests — and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V,...
...Walking slowly towards me up the beach comes Logan Mountstuart, the fictional writer whose journals make up William Boyd’s novel Any Human Heart. He is in a reflective mood....
...The sale will support the Al Thani Collection Foundation....
...It kept emperors (Charles V, then Philip II) at suspicious arm’s length but wilted when their stewardship stiffened into close-up domination....
...Trump et al v....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Liverpool; Nik Morrell, London; Ian Dempsey, New Jersey Polymath 1,015: Richard Otley, Wakefield Crossword 16,123: Michael Baylor, France; Scott Forbes, London; Judith Hadley, USA Polymath 1,014: Peter Boyd...
...(Boyd is a trustee of Stanfield’s charity, the Hebridean Trust, which supports island communities)....
...It often feels as if Bellow — the Yiddish-speaking baker’s son who grew up on the mean streets of blue-collar Chicago, and whose brother Maury worked for Al Capone’s lawyer — spends Leader’s first volume...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...And then military coups and civil wars, et cetera. “I think I was deracinated,” he muses. “I felt more at home in a big West African city than in a British city....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Along with the powerhouses of LVMH, Kering et al, niche indie designers are also carving out an aesthetic mixing west and east in a way that is both credible and commercially viable....
...The pneumatic bicycle tyre was an immediate success after it was put on the market by John Boyd Dunlop in 1889, and sent demand for rubber soaring....
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