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...Early on, Apollo paid cents on the dollar for bonds Drexel clients had purchased at full price....
...On Wednesday, Ukrainian missiles struck a Russian navy yard in the occupied Black Sea port city of Sevastopol, damaging at least two warships undergoing repairs in dry docks....
...At first we minimised contact, loitering six feet away from one another and anxiously washing our hands. On our final outing to the playground, someone I know spotted me. “Yoo-hoo!”...
...That leaves them a yard from a touchdown.”...
...Buphi, a driver from my hotel, Barefoot at Havelock, throws my bag in his jeep and we speed along a single track road, past banana plantations and palm-thatched houses with yards full of betel nuts drying...
...Out with his master on a ride in Hyde Park in 1803, Lieutenant-Colonel Montgomery’s dog growled aggressively at the Newfoundland of one Captain Macnamara....
...Only once before, in 1977, had the Conseil d’Etat denied an extradition request on the grounds that it was an attempt to use criminal allegations for political ends....
...In 2007 and 2008 I spent time on a US military base in a southern state, giving seminars to officers. Being a typical pinko anti-war European, I’d expected to hate the place....
...We follow Old India hand, Jeremiah Blake, along with Lieutenant William Avery, on their hunt for Xavier Mountstuart, a poet obsessed with the Thugs....
...The House of Commons select committee on media reopened its inquiry, but Scotland Yard quickly said there was nothing more to investigate....
...A hundred yards from the cable car summit of Little Lagazuoi, near Cortina d’Ampezzo, none stop to notice a hump in the snow, towards which I follow Pippo the guide. He drags open a wooden door....
...Turbulence By Giles Foden Faber £16.99, 368 pages Foden’s entertaining fictionalisation of the transatlantic rush to make “the most important weather forecast in history” on D-Day....
...“They didn’t give any thought to the fact that once he’d done that he might turn on his creators.”...
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