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...Johnson, who chaired the COP, spoke some amusing green words, then hurried off to London by private jet and dined with self-proclaimed climate “sceptic” Charles Moore....
...Charles McMillian, who encouraged Floyd to co-operate by telling him “you can’t win”, sobbed on the stand as he recounted the incident. “I couldn’t help but feel helpless,” he told the trial....
...Charles Waldheim, from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, says South Florida is “not a place where you would locate a city for any rational reason”....
...On the way we hear about George Washington’s prophetic obsession with the strategic importance of the Ohio river, and the fatal decision by Chiang Kai-shek, China’s nationalist leader, to breach the dykes...
...Thus, when in 1634 Van Dyke made a double portrait of Charles I and Henrietta Maria displaying a modest bulge, he was showing a royal bride doing her job....
...Charles Mok, a former IT executive who represents the sector in Hong Kong’s partially democratic Legislative Council, says investors have been shaken by the decision....
...The fieldfares exploding out of thorn dykes like shards of shrapnel, silver in the sunshine. The voles scurrying beneath my feet as I feed my sheep hay....
...In Rotterdam, measures include building larger dykes and installing water plazas to hold storm water....
...Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was a scientist and confidant of Charles Darwin who, in 1851, crossed a pass in the Himalayas 19,300 feet high to search for rhododendrons in the province of Sikkim....
...Backers include the politicians Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg, Lord Mandelson, Charles Kennedy and Chris Huhne, and celebrities John Cleese, Colin Firth, Joanna Lumley, Greg Dyke, Richard Dawkins, Helena Bonham...
...In A History of England in 100 Places, he takes us from Stonehenge to the Gherkin, via Offa’s Dyke, Bodiam Castle, Blenheim Palace, Ironbridge, the Albert Memorial and the National Theatre; but he also includes...
...Charles Goodhart brought economic rigour to the Bank’s analysis, but his attempts to push thinking forward were sometimes thwarted....
...Suddenly, the impromptu dyke gave way along its entire length. Luckily, Kerr was home alone: “It was extraordinary. One minute, everything was normal....
...The first, John Dryden, had been a supporter of Cromwell, but turned royalist for the commission from Charles II....
...The private equity players’ bid was led by Greg Dyke, formerly director-general of the BBC....
...This would be an odyssey along the dykes and the sand dunes that protect the low-lying Netherlands from the sea; the ox trails used by Danish farmers to drive their cattle to market in Germany; and the precipitous...
...Would, one wonders, a similar report in the UK pick names of novels by Balzac’s friend Charles Dickens? Dickens’ works offer fertile ground....
...The result, even before the cyclone, is what Charles Petrie, the former UN resident representative in Burma, has described as a “silent humanitarian emergency”....
...The expectation remains that the only candidate who might challenge him is Charles Clarke, but the former home secretary will struggle to gain the support of the 45 Labour MPs needed to open the contest....
...When Greg Dyke put together a private equity approach for ITV this spring, Charles Allen managed to see off his old antagonist, proving again his talent for survival....
...In the Netherlands, innovation is focused on pragmatic collective adaptations – dams, dykes, bridges – to allow it to live below sea level....
...The real message of Thursday’s fun and games, though, is that finding a candidate with the programming flair of Greg Dyke, the regulatory understanding of Stephen Carter, the City credibility of Mike Clasper...
...A battle for control of ITV between Charles Allen, chief executive, and Greg Dyke, the former BBC director general, offers the prospect of a fight worthy of one of the TV channel’s soap operas....
...The stars of Extreme Takeover are Greg Dyke, the former director-general of the BBC who is still remembered for championing a loud-mouthed glove puppet 20 years ago, and Charles Allen, the chief executive...
...Apart, perhaps, from Charles Allen, ITV chief executive, who is expected to leave in January at 50 with £9m in his pension pot....
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