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...I was brought up in the town of Adam Smith, and next to the town of Andrew Carnegie. Where are the modern British philanthropists?”...
...Britain won’t be one of them, for as long as it is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights. Albert Pierrepoint was born in March 1905, the middle child of Mary and Henry Pierrepoint....
...Monica grew up in Bolivia, one of 10 siblings. She was a strong and diligent child. On weekends, she swept hot red dust out of the local church....
...“And he would reply, “Oh no, I’d rather call you Miss Smith because we have a professional relationship.”...
...He’d just get up and go to the studio the next day.” Hus’s drive has been matched by Bah and Jalloh....
...This article squarely placed a Goenka retreat as part of Megan’s journey and ultimate suicide....
...His January speech promised to “reimagine our approach to numeracy” and the hiring of more maths teachers. Both speeches dwelled on the case for boosting R&D and innovation....
...I drive home on the country roads I pedalled over as a child behind my father, when Forte was still a real-life Barbie land to me....
...A friend of mine describes it as a Vox Explainer, a reference to the US news site that specialises in making complex stories easily digestible, and that is the film’s strength and its shortcoming....
...On March 21, about four days after first learning of the posts, he resigned as Apollo chief. It was several months earlier than planned, and he relinquished the chairmanship he’d intended to keep....
...While the multimillion-pound multihulls could finish in 24 hours, for amateurs like Bull, it might take as long as a week. There was just one minor problem – my lack of experience....
...“As a performer she would take songs and over the next three to four nights she would change melodies and form new versions of what she’d been singing. She was a musician’s singer.”...
...“I’ve always talked about [my wife], and as soon as we had a child, I talked about him and our family unit....
...You would have asked your host what was being served, and you’d have received a single-word answer: “Ottolenghi”. That never happened to Auguste Escoffier, Elizabeth David, Julia Child or Delia Smith....
...And when Olga was in Paris, his mistress Marie-Thérèse would visit Boisgeloup.” “I saw him with the eyes of a child....
...The hardest thing in tennis is to forget the double fault or the missed chances, and most players can’t. Only the very good ones clean them out and really look forward to the next chance....
...As he likes to point out, the economic concepts of productivity and value-added labour date back to Adam Smith....
...That evening surprised all three of us — my two friends because until then they’d only known me as a journalist; and me because of how much music — Handel, some Schumann — my hands had improbably remembered...
...It was one of the worst swimming spots we’d ever encountered....
...As a child, growing up in working-class Noble Park, south-east Melbourne, he had sometimes to resort to “proper Italian” to communicate with his Neapolitan or Sicilian friends, but it always felt fake: he...
...As nurses in England and Wales gear up for their union’s first strike in more than a century next week — part of a winter of discontent involving paramedics, rail staff, postal workers and university lecturers...
...“It’s like the hunt for Osama bin Laden,” explained an ex-Special Boat Service friend. “As escape and evasion goes, it’s off the scale.”...
...And they had a lot of books that were considered sort of universal and human. And I really . . . I related to it as to a human universal document and not at all a Russian one....
...So writing and going into the arts is not one of the options that was offered to me as a child, as a young adult....
...Understanding the importance of mentors has led my father to devote the rest of his career to supporting the next generation of creatives....
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