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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?”...
...One classmate there remembered Crastes as a “very hard-working” young man, who was “quite discreet, reserved and serious”, and yet still a good friend....
...They packed her off to a gig in the local hall with her brother, friends piled two to a seat in his car....
...“And he would reply, “Oh no, I’d rather call you Miss Smith because we have a professional relationship.”...
...Collardi, nearly 20 years his junior, was his executor and had to sort out the affairs of his three children....
...She’s a torrent of ideas, her next two books already churning, and has won so many accolades and lifetime achievement awards that prizes are now named after her....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] As far back as the 1960s, the Costa has had this magnetic appeal for two very different types of people: retirees looking to see out their days under the Spanish sun, and hardened gangsters...
...But it’s one you pass through rather than a destination; you’d miss it entirely if you didn’t make the excellent decision to take the winding, two-lane Corso Italia out of Genoa in lieu of the faster, easier...
...I emailed a friend who made the transition from mountain guiding to skippering. “Don’t worry,” he wrote back. “It’ll come.” It didn’t....
...James CleverlyI fundamentally disagree with those voices, including people I regard as good friends, who feel that we should disengage from China. I don’t think that is a credible option....
...“I don’t think I’d be sitting in this seat if I hadn’t come out.”...
...And as my father is walking by the pile of bodies, he looks down and he sees my mother's foot with a shoe on it. I mean, I'd read a lot about Putin. I'd never heard this story. And he ran over....
...Many rooms have freestanding bathtubs, and sofas can double as beds for small guests (children are most welcome). There’s no restaurant here; the team prefers to serve breakfast in bed....
...As he likes to point out, the economic concepts of productivity and value-added labour date back to Adam Smith....
...Father of four mixed-race children, Becker has long spoken against racism. “I met a lot of racists in prison, proper Nazis....
...Isabelle offers me cherries and figs from the trees outside. I can’t help thinking of them as Margaret might, as potential pastel colours. “We can’t go for a quiet walk,” says Isabelle. “Well, I can....
...Well-liked among the small number of Jewish refugees in Scotland, Gross acted as a guarantor for several children who’d escaped Nazi persecution....
...In another, he is wearing a baggy T-shirt and jean shorts, huddled with his two siblings next to a leathery-looking, real-life Engelbert Humperdinck....
...her life (and with it, the lives of all those brides to follow her) until the next instalment....
...The family occupies the top-floor bedrooms of Dear’s two grown-up children. His partner was less comfortable with the arrangement, and has moved out....
...After much terrified clinging and a few tears (my children are seven and six), we were found seats close, if not next, to each other, in the same carriage, but that wasn’t the end of the drama: we soon discovered...
...two generations, which I don’t think happens so much back in the day....
...When she says he reminds her of her late father, the tension between them dissipates.) “Don’t worry, you won’t have to fire guns. You won’t be jumping out of any helicopters....
...Jake twiddles some of the two dozen knobs on the desk, as Barrett gurgles water and performs some tongue exercises that sound like snippets of glossolalia....
...He accused federal officials of using Covid restrictions as a form of control and “to target people they don’t like”....
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