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...Blair says he is “pleased” for former Tory premier David Cameron, who was recently installed as foreign secretary....
...There was again special interest in who was at the podium, as Philadelphia’s music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin was ill and replaced by two conductors, Donald Nally and Marin Alsop....
...Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez meets Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin in Helsinki....
...Sanna Marin, the prime minister, said it was designed to protect companies that were essential for the functioning of society....
...music, first in the British Museum’s library, where he found “the enormous repertoire” of composers such as Tobias Hume, Matthew Locke and Henry Purcell, and then in Paris, where he unearthed works by Marin...
...Marin Alsop conducts the CSO’s opening concert on July 15....
...translated by Anne McLean, Maclehose £16.99/Knopf $30 Cercas, the Spanish author of multi-layered and award-winning novels like Soldiers of Salamis, tackles the detective genre in the story of Melchor Marín...
...The government of Sanna Marin has drawn international plaudits for having five parties all led by women....
...Really, it’s a pub with a few rooms, and one awash with Ye Olde West Country atmosphere, which is pretty brilliant considering the Marin County coordinates....
...David Reich, Uber’s head of transit, said the company was in discussions with “dozens” of regions across “multiple continents” and would announce more locations in 2020....
...Susie Blake, Richenda Carey, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Anne Reid, Daniel Rigby, Kate Robbins, David Threlfall, Julie Walters and Jane Wymark each take their turn at narrating Rees’s detailed account of...
...For some leaders, the comparisons with another former Conservative UK prime minister, David Cameron, who threatened to torpedo the EU’s budget in 2013, were hard to ignore — only now there were several leaders...
...Dr David Webster Cathcart, Glasgow, UK...
...“We are always David fighting Goliath,” she tells me after the rally in a nearby Starbucks — another of Seattle’s corporate champions....
...(FT) Uber breaks into public sector with California deal The agreement will allow residents of Marin County, in the San Francisco Bay area, to book rides on public minibuses through Uber’s app....
...The Wall Street bank is planning to launch a robo adviser next year, bringing it a step closer to Main Street under new chief executive David Solomon....
...David Sedaris regularly reads from his work at the community centre, where Willie Nelson is also known to headline....
...Dancer-choreographers Amos Ben-Tal, David Coria or Martin Harriague all had moments of brilliance and outstanding stage partners, only for an unevenness of purpose to creep in....
...The work, which lasted nearly two hours without intermission, was presented in David Geffen Hall....
...Congratulations to David Hockney for becoming the living artist with the most expensive work sold at auction on Thursday night when his 3-metre-wide “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” of 1972...
...£215-£230, cleanwaves.com Plant life Even explorers need exfoliation — at least according to David de Rothschild, the adventurer, naturopath and scion of the banking dynasty....
...“This process has been critical in allowing human brains to expand,” said Professor Oscar Marín, leader of the study which is published in the journal Nature....
...But the artwork, “Le Marin”, estimated to sell for roughly $70m at Christie’s, was damaged in its final preparations for the auction and pulled at the last minute....
...Nonetheless, he faces a number of challenges ahead of him: Keeping the group’s 87 partners unified and holding on to rainmakers such as Gregoire Chertok and Cyril de Mont-Marin....
...Marin Alsop, a brilliant master of ceremonies at the 2015 Last Night, was on less sure ground in Verdi....
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