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...Which Stravinsky opera of 1951 has a libretto co-written by W H Auden? Which browser was launched by Microsoft in 2015 as part of Windows 10?...
...I opted for their take on a margarita: patron tequila, Cointreau, umeshu plum liqueur, blood orange, turmeric and a little cayenne to give it a kick....
Fund manager traded controversial German financier’s bonds with Shard Capital
...Cynthia Corbett Gallery brought only women artists, ranging from swift-selling ceramics by 30-year-old Freya Bramble-Carter (from £675) to an oil painting by the octogenarian Tuëma Pattie (£4,000)....
...“[W]e have permanently retired from this line of work,” he said in the firm’s 2021 annual report. And Ackman isn’t the only activist changing his stripes....
...The works sit against a chic art-deco backdrop, newly designed by Thierry W Despont and inspired by the American-style bars that appeared in London and Paris during the 1920s....
...Their plum hue symbolised the joining of blue and red, the respective colours of the Democratic and Republican parties....
...The judge, Paul Diamond, a George W Bush appointee, appeared sceptical about the case....
...During their years in the political wilderness of the Trump years, many senior Obama staffers who had looked forward to plum jobs under President Hillary Clinton began to ponder how the Democratic party...
...The lawyers representing Al Gore and George W Bush — David Boies, who took on Microsoft in a landmark antitrust trial, versus Ted Olson, a partner at Gibson Dunn with numerous high court cases under his...
...She stuck her thumb into masses of pies and pulled out plums that remade the New York art world....
...Another recent visitor was George P Bush, the Texas Land Commissioner and nephew of George W, who is trying to find a way of protecting Houston without angering local climate deniers....
...Cynthia Milligan, a director since 1992, and Susan Swenson, who has sat on the board since 1998, will retire at the end of the year....
...Sales made so far include the exhibition’s cover lot, “WORK64-W” (1964)....
...The letter included some genuine self-sacrificers, such as Robert Zoellick, a former senior official in George W Bush’s administration, who might have expected a plum offer from Mr Trump....
...The scene changes again to reveal a stiff couple from a 1930s potboiler, hair oiled, plums in mouths. Before even that, there was the music hall....
...Additional reporting by Cynthia O’Murchu...
...No sooner had she got home, Papp was on the phone, offering her plum roles. Streep recalls thinking, “Maybe he’d lost his critical faculties.”...
...Imagine how harder it would be for West Point to recruit talented military officers if plum generalships were handed out to amateurs who had never worn a uniform....
...Bring a large pot of well-salted water to the boil and blanch four ripe plum tomatoes. Peel, seed and chop the tomatoes....
...The news of Steve Ballmer’s early departure as chief executive of Microsoft has created a vacancy for one of the plum jobs in business: a seat at the helm of a corporate behemoth worth nearly $300bn that...
...Condoleezza Rice, who during the last Bush administration became the first African-American woman to serve as secretary of state, has also been given a plum spot, the Republican national committee announced...
...As Craig Stapleton, George W....
...He was a White House speech writer for the first half of George W. Bush’s first term when he helped to coin one of his former master’s signature lines: the “axis of evil”....
...Mr Albanese’s departure comes after Cynthia Carroll last year said she would step down at Anglo American and Mick Davis agreed to stand aside at Xstrata....
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