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...Take a break from the news As spring dawns on us, Harriet Baker’s book Rural Hours examines how back-to-basics living in the countryside fuelled creativity for three literary greats....
...While Dawn Avatar Robot Café is located in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi business district, the employees are spread out across Japan and even overseas....
...“I’ve got about five Bond girls’ numbers in my phone,” says Alan Ramsay, as we glide up the mountain in the gloom of pre-dawn. “But they’re all over 70.”...
...James Killick, competition partner at White & Case said antitrust investigations were increasingly being politicised....
...The prime minister’s expenditure vow yesterday comes in the wake of an intense lobbying campaign by prominent Tory MPs, including former defence secretary Ben Wallace and former armed forces minister James...
...According to the poem by Kipling, how does dawn come up on the road to Mandalay? Who founded the Unification Church in 1954? In the musical Annie, what’s the first solo song sung by Annie?...
...“Salt is a touchstone for the ways human beings have interacted with their food since the dawn of time,” says Bitterman. “What better thing to pay attention to?”...
...More than 200 people in Israel were killed and more than 1,100 wounded in the unprecedented multipronged dawn assault on Saturday, when Hamas gunmen targeted civilians and military posts in southern Israel...
...“We find ourselves at the dawn of a new era . . . moving from a postwar to a prewar world,” he said. “Old enemies are being reanimated....
...Round on the Links The link was leaders PM Dawn Master and Commander (Patrick O’Brian) Monarch Machine head Steve McQueen Operation Overlord Larry King Emperor Lord’s Citizen Khan...
...Cunningham’s writing is careful and stately: were it not for its setting, we might well be in Wharton’s Old New York or in a novel by Henry James....
...A rose-gold dawn expands above the tree line as our little group pedals out the next morning: Kyle ahead with a GPS route-plotter and a rifle beneath his crossbar (a safety measure of last resort) then a...
...The episode was a microcosm of the chaos and terror that engulfed southern Israel last Saturday, as the lightning dawn assault by the Islamist militant group Hamas surprised and then overwhelmed the country...
...James was an English poet and patron of the surrealist movement – he was friends with Dalí, Picasso and Magritte....
...He hosted about 15 MPs on the Tory right for a dawn breakfast of bacon sandwiches, fruit and pastries, during which he pledged his willingness to “tighten” the migration legislation in exchange for their...
...Netanyahu hailed the passing of the budget — which envisages spending of Shk484bn in 2023 and Shk514bn in 2024 — as the “dawn of a new day” and said his government’s priority was now to lower the cost of...
...(Murdoch and three of his children, Lachlan, James and Elisabeth, are widely thought to have inspired the show.)...
...In 1455, he began an altarpiece for a chapel in Pistoia, “The Trinity with Saints Mamas, James, Zeno and Jerome”, where God supports the crucified Christ....
...In my father’s generation, the most beautiful English batsman was David Gower, a left-hander whose cover drives felt preordained since the dawn of time....
...The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China by James M Zimmerman, PublicAffairs $30/£25, 352 pages James Kynge is the FT’s global China editor Join...
...While some economists warned there have been recent false dawns on interest rates, most analysts expect inflation to continue to decline in the months ahead....
...And one scoop: James Bayliss, Elliott Management’s head trader in London, has left the firm in the latest departure of a long-serving member from the $59bn US hedge fund’s main European office, said people...
...There are also six “lighting scenarios” to improve on nature, ensuring rosy dawn or amber sunset, whatever the weather or time of day....
...This year’s line-up includes James Blake, Cat Power, Simple Minds, Queens of the Stone Age, Air, Take That and The National....
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