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...Ticket sales have been strong for the two operas — Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore — and there will also be youth events, two oratorios in performance and Christmas concerts....
...In the accountancy department of a forgotten company, Carol meets other lonely souls who’d rather scale a mountain of paperwork than Everest....
...Almost exactly a year ago, the PPF was forced to stump up £1.6bn in cash as additional security for derivative-linked investment strategies following the Liz Truss government’s ill-fated “mini”...
...I was at the St Matthias College infant school and if I’d seen mud, I’d have probably eaten it. Generalising into broad, stereotypical age groups rarely withstands any closer observation....
...Again, nothing too arch, not a pedigree craft ale with enough hops to shrivel your tongue to a black stump. Just crisp, light, general purpose lager beer. Cleansing....
...I’d love it even only for this: here it is, a filmmaker who isn’t lazy nor self-indulgent. A rarity in this era of bloated runtimes and single-proposition films.”...
...As a child, I’d spend weekends with my grandparents in Suffolk....
...If those gorillas didn’t want to interact with Freya they’d tell me with their body language before she goes in.”...
...Donna Anna?...
...However, you’d never know from this production that, for many people, this has always been the greatest of all operas....
...He sets off again in the direction of what he’d earlier described as “his favourite pylon”. His enthusiasm appears boundless....
...Marc Filippino So Donald Trump shared some, I guess, head-turning thoughts about Nato recently while he was on the stump in South Carolina. Let’s take a listen....
...“DeSantis is positioning himself to be there in case Trump flames out,” said Donna Hoffman, a political scientist at the University of Northern Iowa....
...“We’d been teachers and mothers and that life experience fortified our passion and our knowledge,” she says. It also helped in times of adversity....
...It is a very risky investment to make,” said Andrew Urquhart, professor of finance and financial technology at Henley Business School, adding: “If my pension fund said we’re going to get into crypto, I’d...
...“I’d like to say I’d come up with the answer to the great question of economics for internal and external balance but, nah, it didn’t happen,” he says....
...Donna Goldstein, one of the paper’s co-authors, tells me that Trump is a product of the New York comedy scene he grew up around, where crude, gestural humour reigns....
...You’d need a 40 per cent default rate and 40 cent [on the dollar] recoveries to blow through 50 per cent of the capital structure....
...US banks are under pressure to stump up for deposits amid the sharp jump in interest rates. That has raised questions over the industry’s vast bond holdings....
...They put the chances of one at 55 per cent, against our 60 per cent; a year ago we’d both agreed that the odds of a recession were two in three....
...His vines are not neat green rows tended by an expensive vineyard management company, but forgotten, ancient stumps....
...And my wife said she’d figured out the Neanderthaler connection from my table manners....
...All I have left to show for my hard work is a few stumps that are unlikely to produce anything. Fail....
...I’d inch slowly from my chair, because it seemed they could perceive my movement, darting their small heads to look directly at me....
.../ From Donna Anton, Hayle, Cornwall, UK...
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