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...celebrated in many countries UK: Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, the 106th edition of this annual service featuring readings and carols sung by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge....
...In some residential buildings, carols are sung in the lobby....
...Leafy plants and those that bear their crop above ground — for example, annual flowers, corn, tomatoes, beans, cabbage, watermelon, kale, courgette — are best planted during the waxing fortnight....
...“It’s also a good time to get ahead on some of my lighter work, like preparing for upcoming episodes of our podcast, In Good Company, where I interview the world’s best CEOs....
...“You feel good when the Sun King is smiling on you and not so good when the gaze moves to someone else,” said a former fund manager....
...This was seven years after the publication of A Christmas Carol, whose wild success had wedded the dish previously known as plum pudding to Christmas Day, making it the iconic centre of the feast for wealthy...
...The Houthis were “very good military entrepreneurs” who have jumped on the “opportunity” presented by the war, said Farea al-Muslimi, a Yemeni expert at the Chatham House think-tank....
...While we were in Mobile, Alabama, for New Year’s Eve, there was a shooting in a crowd just a few streets from where we were having dinner....
...Speaking on the eve of a high-profile peace mission by a group of African leaders to Moscow and Kyiv this week, Bio said: “We’re working to bring pressure to bear on President Putin and all those concerned...
...You know, at a carol event, everyone lights each other’s candles. The song comes on. Her cry. It’s good. Ludo Hunter-Tilney Isn’t there a bit of a contradictory “Silent Night” there, Lilah?...
...Bears were quick to note the effects of warm weather in January and one-off cost-of-living adjustments to benefits payments....
...skiing in Reberty costs from £716 per adult and £501 per child, including half-board and airport transfers; familyski.co.uk Les Arcs, France A quirk of the Christmas calendar (to avoid travel on Christmas Eve...
...It was a season in which I felt mended and exalted, as though I were a Christmas carol belted out by angelic choirs....
...Von der Leyen’s presidency began in December 2019, on the eve of multiple crises....
...“I couldn’t bear to let someone else do it because it’s our family, our history,” she says....
...This will not be good for the economy....
...There are a lot of good wild mushrooms about at the moment so it seemed topical to order them, with a “St Ewe” egg, herb mousseline and truffle foam (227kcal)....
...George ParkerAh yes, good old freeports....
...Bear markets don’t end until the Fed has cuts rates — and usually by a large amount.”...
...Or are there examples of closer economic links altering political set-ups that us sceptics ought to bear in mind?...
...I’m a huge fan of Mini Rodini’s kids’ clothes – clever prints that are less cutesy fairies and more Wes Anderson quirk. minirodini.com Cloud, 2021, by Eve Ackroyd, £3,200Owning one of Eve Ackroyd’s oil...
...When times are good, EM stocks and bonds attract interest from so-called crossover investors — people who do not typically invest in EMs but will put some of their money in when times are good....
...Noam remembered the first time that they had kissed, New Years’ Eve, 1999, the end of an era, the end of the world....
...Lewis still bears the scars of his first world war experience; Freud has recently fled Austria....
...For many at Westminster, Northern Ireland was, and is, a cross to bear — and a heavy one at that....
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