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...In their stories, mollycoddled, world-weary layabouts from the minor nobility would chase women, gamble away their inheritance and shoot each other in duels....
...Like its God-fearing, justice-meting title character, played by a commanding David Oyelowo, the show is reliable, straight-faced and solemn....
...He selects stones from a brook and then, a mere boy, he volunteers to King Saul that he will meet Goliath’s challenge to a duel....
...Here, among the tonkori workouts between father and son (Manaw is also a drummer), there are a cappella duels on “Hem Hoa” and the rapidly accelerating “Muysoka Hanene”, all the participants chasing each...
...The last billionaire on the Manchester United pitch The long-running duel for control of Manchester United is finally coming to an end....
...Ukraine’s soldiers have received praise for their acts of valour on the battlefield, where they are locked in a David-versus-Goliath fight against the much larger and more powerful Russian army....
...A: £1.77 As ever, feedback/pleas/duel proposals to alphaville@ft.com....
...He duels over everything, from restaurant reservations to the paper stock of his business cards. He does not converse, he lectures. He has sex like a porn star. His violence is explosive....
...Britain’s public realm, weak since Margaret Thatcher and hollowed out by David Cameron’s austerity, is now collapsing....
...The reinvention of Goldman Sachs: what has David Solomon achieved?...
...Dutta laughs at the suggestion but adds that crossovers between the game and the two writers’ styles — the pauses, the subtext, the pairings, the duels — were part of the attraction....
...For Rooney, David Sherborne, veteran of the Leveson inquiry, has unearthed such WhatsApp gems as “[arguing with Coleen] would be like arguing with a pigeon....
...She went to art school a few years after the duel in the bar because, she says, “I knew there were things I needed to know”....
...Polling suggested voters were unexcited by the prospect of another second-round duel between Macron and Le Pen, said Morin....
...Live, the musicians would launch into extended improvisations, leaping off from Celia Humphris’s full-throated singing, in which guitars and piano would engage in ragged duels....
...The M&A powerhouses behind an epic corporate duel One reason messy corporate quarrels usually end in settlements: no one wants to see their dirty laundry in open court....
...The west’s halfhearted interventions have made a bad situation worse, David Gardner writes....
...I’ve also enjoyed a book by a 17th-century Italian nobleman sentenced to house arrest after killing a man in a duel....
...Boris Johnson survived a high-stakes televised duel with Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday night, with a snap opinion poll suggesting that he had narrowly beaten his Labour opponent in the most dramatic encounter...
...Nevertheless, there’s a fair amount of American Gothic at work, still: the story of Catfish Kate, taken by a fish when she went to the river; the challenge to a duel in “Silver Bullet”....
...We supported Margaret Thatcher in her duels with our partners in the European Community, assisted by the fact that never did she seriously consider quitting the EC — her caution stands in striking contrast...
...proposed by UK energy regulator Ofgem in September (at levels broadly expected by the industry), before shifting by just £1 after a consultation period to the levels announced on Tuesday — £1,137 for typical duel-fuel...
...article, England’s unheralded right wing-back quietly, but clearly, became England’s best player at the World Cup: “It is his ability from set plays that has earned him comparisons to his boyhood idol, David...
...On a wall at the Center a plaque commemorates David Hosack, 1769-1835. “Botanist, physician, man of science”, it reads, “and citizen of the world....
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