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...So is Charles Beaumont’s debut A Spy Alone (Canelo £9.99). Simon Sharman, a former MI6 operative, is scraping by as a consultant in the private sector....
...Underlying this dispute is the problem — an open secret in Brussels — that von der Leyen has a poor relationship both with Charles Michel, the current EU council president, and with Borrell....
...In rejecting his application in 1963, Charles de Gaulle, then president of France, argued that “the nature, the structure, the very situation . . . that are England’s differ profoundly from those of the...
...He wrongly describes Antoine Pinay as Charles de Gaulle’s prime minister in the 1960s (Pinay was premier in 1952-53 and finance minister in 1958-60)....
...Leopold attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he studied with William Merritt Chase. Leopold died in 1956, a few years after I was born, so we didn’t know each other....
...(William Merritt Chase once declared: “My God, I would rather go to Europe than go to Heaven.”)...
...Several Sargent stunners congregate as if for a Gilded-Age dinner, along with full-length portraits by Thomas Eakins, James McNeill Whistler, Cecilia Beaux and William Merritt Chase....
...Merritt’s music is less mind-blowing than mind-expanding....
...In the half century since Sir Charles Mackerras first introduced Katya Kabanová to the UK, the opera has become a regular fixture....
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