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...“If you see that the moon is affecting tides, gardening by the moon is saying that all water beneath the surface — and in ourselves — is swayed by it,” says Carol Connare, editor of the US-based annual publication...
...Oates was married to her first husband, Raymond J Smith, for 47 years. When Smith died in 2008, she wrote a memoir, a raw accounting of grief and its horrible novelties....
...The former US president is suing Orbis Business Intelligence over the notorious dossier compiled by its co-founder, former MI6 spy Christopher Steele....
...Touchet, who served as his hostess during his separation from his wife, once owned an autographed copy of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which became the most expensive of Dickens’ books when it was sold at...
...Dates to be announced; further information here November Performance ‘A Christmas Carol’, Old Vic Matthew Warchus’ production of Dickens’ classic returns for a festive run....
...Nicholas Malins-Smith Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK Letter in response to this letter: Our boardroom biscuits are served up on a plate / From Dick Steele, Chairman, Portmeirion Group, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire...
...The Big Four firm has flown some of its top executives, including global general counsel Diana Weiss and global head of tax Carol Stubbings, to Sydney, according to a person close to the firm with knowledge...
...As we head towards the seasonal break, I’ve been to several carol services and concerts, including the FT’s own event at St Bride’s, the journalists’ church on Fleet Street....
...A contemporary German Christmas carol set the seal as an encore. ★★★★☆ It was equally good to see St John’s, Smith Square, filled for the Tallis Scholars, one of the prime events in the venue’s 37th Christmas...
...But Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Mill and his son, John Stuart Mill, all shared the same view....
...“This is a true writer,” wrote Patti Smith following Didion’s death in December 2021. “Farewell brave sister, master of pain and ink.”...
...Pete Smith, another pilot, retired in 2003 — the year I began to fly commercially — after decades of flying the 737 and the 747....
...He drank a toast to the Queen mid-afternoon, opened one of his 12 bottles of whisky and a jar of pickled onions he had stowed on board, before performing a solo carol service to the waves....
...One informal index of residents’ care for their town, noted by local activist Hilary Smith, is a reduction in litter. “Some of it is about people wanting to be more involved,” says Smith....
...There, I met my husband Ray Smith, and this accidental meeting totally altered my life. Who was or still is your mentor?...
...“Fall in Love at Christmas” (★★★☆☆) is a 1990s R&B/hip-hop throwback with piercing whistle singing, a carol-singing breakdown, a gospel choir and slinky co-vocals from singer Khalid....
...broader initiative, Art For Your World, which culminates this November, and includes an online sale of exclusive prints from artists such as Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Heather Phillipson and Bob and Roberta Smith...
...Data visualisation by Alan Smith...
...‘Invisible to Invaluable: Unleashing the Power of Midlife Women’, by Jane Evans and Carol Russell We seem to be in a “moment” in societal and publishing terms, with the concerns and potential of mid-life...
...And we essentially got the list down to Iain Duncan Smith, the former welfare secretary; maybe Chris Heaton-Harris, Northern Ireland secretary....
...His successor will be Carol Borg, currently chief financial officer of solar developer Lightsource BP....
...GH: There’s a scene in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, when Scrooge asks, [something like] “are these the shadows of things that are or might be?”....
...Alex T Smith’s The Twelve Days of Christmas (Macmillan £9.99) is less reverential....
...Kiell Smith-Bynoe plays it straight as irritable Mike while the tenuous plot meanders its way towards Christmas harmony and intergenerational understanding....
...The second festival, says Smith, will be “bigger, better, bolder”....
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