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...Thereafter it’s a whistle-stop tour through Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Agatha Christie, Judy Garland et al, interspersed with touches of memoir, such as Baker’s Nanna Betty with her crocheted-doll toilet-roll...
...Imagine if hot cross buns suddenly became the must-have, beg-steal-or-borrow items, and you get close to what I witnessed. “Can we call it a mass hysteria? I think we can,” one baker told me....
...“This is a binding legal obligation [and] an important reminder that no state is above the law,” said Riyad al-Maliki, the Palestinian foreign minister....
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...Still, the study by Subramanian et al should remind us why we care about globalisation....
...“Dredging up sand to reclaim beaches and artificial islands is a never-ending process,” says Jim Krane, a fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute....
...Dalal’s husband Anan Al-Abassi, who works at a hospital in the city of Afula, became a target, with angry Israelis demanding he be sacked....
...Today’s top stories Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital has “ceased to function” and Israel has traded cross-border fire with Hizbollah, the Iran-backed militia in Lebanon....
...Saudi Arabia is far from hanging up its jersey Yasir al-Rumayyan has had a busy few seasons....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Peynaud’s successors at the University of Bordeaux, currently Marchal et al, produce a detailed report on the growing season every year....
...Last week, US law firm Baker McKenzie cut ties with senior UAE lawyer Habib Al Mulla over Twitter posts he made in relation to a viral video in which young women gave their thoughts about contemporary womanhood...
...Gain: headlong action brio and a cast of overnight Hollywood stars-to-be (McQueen, Bronson et al). Loss: length, character complexity and the loving build-up of an epic momentum....
...Its first station opened at Baker Street in 1863 in an attempt to reduce congestion on Victorian London’s streets....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...A Federal Reserve Board of Governors paper by Edmund Crawley et al says $2.5tn of Fed balance sheet unwind would approximately equate to a 0.50 percentage point of tightening, or 20 basis points per trillion...
...Does that mean already anxious investors have little to fear as the Fed et al embark on QT?...
...Independent hawkers are in on the fun too: there’s even a new family-owned bakery in town, Buns from Home, that’s dedicated almost entirely to buns — chocolate, coconut, pistachio et al....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...But dumping the cynical first-person narration that distinguished The Big Sleep et al may not have been a prudent move....
...It sits one block along from Les Deux Magots, the café once frequented by Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir et al and which has become a hang-out for tourists and would-be existentialists....
...Pieces in unglazed grey are finished with metallic details inspired by the drawings of Darwin et al....
...You can understand why the US et al would make a big fuss about Russia avoiding its sanctions by flogging knockdown oil to India or cheap gas to China — though I would note in passing that Russia’s imperialist...
...Or, if the weather’s warm, try their signature Cappuccino Al Freddo, a frothy iced number whipped up in a milkshake maker....
...Trump et al v....
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