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...Fuel to the fire Madrid has scored a high-octane victory over Barcelona in the perennial race between Spain’s two biggest cities, securing the right to host the country’s grand prix from 2026, write Carmen...
...I’d quickly respond, “It’s Arabic.” It was complicated enough being a young woman with a foreign accent on the trading floor of a US investment bank in London. No need to confuse people further....
...He also feels reassured that Val d’Isère’s snowfall is reliable....
...She’d first read the 17th-century novelist as a teenager, in Samuel Putnam’s (then new) translation....
...You can imagine her shock when she discovered a contact she’d met in Westminster was later accused of spying for China....
...And troubled chefs, battling their demons as well as stress and exhaustion, are captivating to the public, from Anthony Bourdain to Carmen in The Bear....
...At the age of 25, the artist was moving away from his rose period, but had not yet embarked on Cubist classics such as “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”....
...But few in the crowd looked like they’d be causing trouble. Two women stood to one side of the entrance holding a banner: “Reparations for Mozambique Now!”...
...Otherwise you’d get ridiculed,” she recalls. But bad practice was not universal. “I’ve worked in kitchens ruled by fear and kitchens ruled by encouragement,” says O’Toole....
...d’Alessio and Odile Rubirosa are captured at New York club Xenon, spreading their arms like wings while beaming at the camera; while actor Sterling St Jacques and model Pat Cleveland, dressed in bunny ears...
...“As can happen with extensive renovations, it has taken a lot longer than I’d anticipated,” says Alex Logsdail, chief executive of the gallery....
...Our senses are overwhelmed to the point that you’d swear you could smell the rich aromas of seasoned meat and adrenaline....
...All the big-hitters are here — a new and presumably epic production of Aida, Zeffirelli’s Carmen and Madama Butterfly, a “pyrotechnic” Il Barbiere di Siviglia and gala events with Plácido Domingo and Jonas...
...“If I was a finance minister, I’d find it hard to tell my prime minister that we have a clean framework to work with,” says Baqir....
...“I’d heard the name,” says Ireland, “but as I slowly began to document the buildings, it became clearer the effect he’d had on the city, especially through the private homes he built....
...Later, after co-founding the Dziga Vertov Group to “make political films politically”, he added the hermetic and hectoring works British Sounds and Le Vent d’est....
...Dr Spaeth and Carmen Mory....
...It rained overnight in the Val d’Arno....
...I’d love to hear how you did and what you thought of the game. Welcome back to Energy Source! The pandemic is not done with the oil market yet....
...But most of all I love going to Opéra Comique, the 18th-century theatre that Bizet’s Carmen was written for....
...“It’s very grim,” says Carmen Reinhart, the World Bank’s chief economist....
...In Búzios, the chic beach and surfing resort in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state, demand for property rose, according to estate agent Hernán Javier Barbosa. “The condominiums were full,” he says....
...“When I realised there might be some issues about travelling or just the idea of being at home in New York in general, in a terrible environment, I just figured I’d rather be here,” he says....
...I’d spend hours on Pinterest, typing in ‘Scandinavian women with chic grey hair’, because they do it so well.”...
...I’d visit the Aswan dam, then sleep in Agatha Christie’s room in the Old Cataract hotel....
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