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...Welsh, London; VW Durham, Cumbria, England; Rowan McKittrick, London Polymath 1,062: Susan J Tzotzos, Austria Crossword 16,401: David Jeffrey, Edinburgh; Michael Capparis, New York; J Morton, Glasgow...
...Bank boards, to borrow from Mary J Blige, want no more drama....
...In 2012 Ms Cooper sold 80 per cent of the Windsor company to Dnata, part of the Emirates Group....
...His students included David Hammons and Kerry James Marshall, as well as the Los Angeles artist Richard Wyatt....
...Burns admits to “serious mistakes” in Libya, where the US was dragged along into toppling Muammer Gaddafi by a gung-ho David Cameron, UK prime minister, and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France....
...Jilly Cooper’s polo-playing classes are generally quite jolly. And I would argue Jane Austen is reasonably generous in allowing her aristocrats a good time. It’s true also of Crazy Rich Asians....
...Thornberry Sr was a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; in 2007, Thornberry Jr voted against the renewal of Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons....
...“There is a huge influx of overseas buyers”, says David Barr, sales agent at Wayne Walker Property Consultants....
...It is referendums that breed populism / From Anders Åslund It took a second war in Europe for the economic lessons to be learnt / From David Harrison...
...Set design and build by Katie Fotis and Anna Oldham-Cooper Does your messy desk help you get more done? Or does messy desk = messy mind? Join the debate in the comments below...
...FIRSTBORNS • US President Barack Obama • J.K....
...The next day, David Cameron conceded that Scotland should be granted an independence referendum if the Scottish government wanted it. It was a decision some colleagues would later bitterly criticise....
...(Financial Times) “Johnson & Johnson and Amazon.com are clashing over complaints that Amazon isn’t doing enough to prevent people from selling damaged or expired J&J products—Tylenol painkillers and Rogaine...
...Conor J. O’Brien of the Villagers sang the sailor’s ballad “Old Shanghai” with smooth charm, the anti-Tom Waits....
...Quality Street, created by playwright J.M. Barrie, sounds more genteel....
...… TRAVEL The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, by Patrick Leigh Fermor, edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper, John Murray, RRP£25 This final part of Leigh Fermor’s trilogy recounting...
...Like the equally fussy Jean-Marc Vincent of Santenay, Pierre-Yves Colin is a big fan of the small cooper Chassin of Rully, whose work he describes as “haute couture”....
...Good morning, New York… FT ALPHAVILLE Money keeps leaving Italy: David looks at Italy’s Balance of Payment numbers, out on Monday....
...… Clad in Lycra Donning his Lycra, David Sproul, Deloitte’s new chief executive, will be cycling 95 miles from Ludlow to Bath on Friday....
...Cooper as additional directors....
...“In Obama’s view, Asia is the New Europe”, says David Rothkopf, a prominent foreign affairs commentator. “The only people who should feel slighted by this are the Europeans.”...
...The same is true of plans to produce a live-action version of J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit....
...David Miliband, the subject of endless speculation at the moment, has just turned 43....
...The answer to the first two questions is an unequivocal yes, according to David Bell, human resources director of JCB, the construction machinery company....
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