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...Or is it true, as Charles de Gaulle allegedly said, that “the graveyards are full of ‘indispensable’ men [and women]”?...
...On the lifeboat’s port-side bow, in a mosaic of donors’ names making up its identification number, two stood out: Harold Charles Underwood. Dorothy Gladys Underwood. Both born in 1920....
...The Royal Ballet-trained choreographer dispenses with much of the usual paraphernalia, and Craig Lucas’s scenario differs substantially from the 1948 Frederick Ashton version on which Wheeldon was weaned...
...Craig Foster, head of the Australian Republic Movement, said using an image of an unelected British monarch on Australia’s currency was “no longer justifiable” in 2023....
...Pianist Craig Taborn and cellist Mat Maneri are long-term associates; guitarist Bill Frisell is a sensitive and compatible guest....
...This one belonged to Charles Saatchi, “an exceptional collector and voracious consumer of the latest in art,” in the words of Norman Rosenthal, then exhibitions secretary of the RA....
...Former Bank of America executive Craig Coben’s latest Alphaville post explains what bankers need to learn from the situation to avoid a similar fiasco....
...Smart reads Hindsight hurts Former Bank of America executive Craig Coben examines how Goldman Sachs fumbled SVB’s $2.25bn equity sale in an Alphaville post....
...Smart reads Bulbs, Birkins and bored apes The famous Scottish scholar Charles Mackay’s financial observations weren’t always correct....
...For the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, she was filmed in a cameo with the actor Daniel Craig reprising his role as James Bond....
...Charles and Diana separated....
...Charles III, the new king, is known to be more of a polo fan. Transition is something of a theme in this edition of the newsletter....
...Leon Craig, a short-story writer, sought a sensitivity reader on her 2022 collection Parallel Hells, which also features a trans woman....
...Yalda Hakim, broadcasterBook: A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson “Jackson’s biography of Charles de Gaulle taps into the way I feel about Afghanistan....
...Far better for me was Craig Green’s dark navy tabard-tank with his signature string ties – a brilliant layer over cotton rollnecks or T-shirts and paired with jeans....
...Craig Lockhart, managing director of BAE Systems Australia’s maritime division, says the Hunter-class frigate programme and the push into Aukus establishes Australia as an asset in any future conflict....
...In 1840, Charles Darwin fitted wheels to his armchair and used it to zip between specimen drawers....
...Just as Daniel Craig’s farewell to Bond, No Time to Die, refocused attention on the cinema, so the streamer has launched a film remarkable enough to drag it back to the small screen....
...It opens with a sculptural piece by London-based designer Craig Green and balances a new generation of names such as Edward Crutchley and Grace Wales Bonner alongside fashion’s most significant disrupters...
...Sir Charles Walker, a veteran Conservative MP, summed up the mood on why Tory decided they were fed up of Liz Truss. Charles WalkerThis is an absolute disgrace....
...The origins of Sleeping Beauty, going back to the 1697 Charles Perrault version and before that the 13th-century version, are darker.”...
...Craig Charles, 56, is best-known for his role as Lister in the sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf....
...Raise a glass to Daniel Craig’s final Bond film with my must-read guide to where to find the best dry martinis in London....
...I worked on the Bond film Spectre, on set for Monica Bellucci, and it was like being a child again, seeing Daniel Craig in a scene with Bellucci and saying the classic “Bond, James Bond” line....
...It started with Charles Rennie Mackintosh, then I went a bit further back to William Morris and the arts and crafts and aesthetic movements....
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