Hints and tips:
...Another draw is how relaxed and safe the island feels, as I discover when I rent an e-bike from Hervé Grimaud, a Frenchman who moved here 15 years ago. “How do I lock it?” I ask....
...(The four sergeants were Bonapartists guillotined in 1822, and legend has it that two of them briefly escaped from prison in the nearby Tour de la Lanterne and hid here.)...
...We drop anchor and stop for lunch, but we can’t eat without lowering the sails because c’è troppo vento (there’s too much wind)....
...The graffiti task force, which contains one sergeant and eight dedicated officers, is also embroiled in a protracted guerrilla war that most people don’t even notice....
...A year later, in 2011, Royal Marine Sergeant Alexander Blackman shot a wounded insurgent in Nad-e Ali in Helmand. “Shuffle off this mortal coil, you cunt,” he remarked....
...She does have a younger sister Skipper who was introduced in 1964. Maybe she will help, if she hasn’t gone off the rails....
...The half-Scottish, half-Swedish skipper spent 22 years as a deep-sea diver and was educated at Rannoch — the notoriously spartan boarding school where he doubtless acquired his bone-dry comic understatement...
...“I spotted the Hodinkee Skipper on Instagram while I was upstairs getting changed,” says Mr Bamford. “I was so desperate to own it that I actually fell down the stairs racing to my laptop....
...E. on Car trouble brings Elon Musk back to earth How long will people keep calling electric vehicles (EVs) "low emission" cars?...
They Trustees share the same legal obligations as company directors, writes Harriet Sergeant
...One struggles to think of a better recruiting sergeant for Isis than despairing Sunni finally rendered helpless....
...In the found-object homage “The Sergeant”, the contents of one fragile basket — helmet, hammer, nails, conkers, withered leaves — spill out: a hamper of death....
...It most resembles the shooting and bombing attack on Mumbai in November 2008 by the Pakistan-based Lashkar e-Taiba, which killed 174. The Isis decision to act now must have a tactical logic....
...In the latter, it did this by securing the survival of Isis’s number one recruiting sergeant, President Bashar al-Assad, amid a civil war costing almost 200,000 lives in which jihadis have tried to replace...
...That is fairly standard for an elite e-sport player....
...E-reading is certainly on the rise. The Pew Research Center reports that, as recently as 2010, hardly anyone in the US had an e-reader or tablet. Now half do....
...On the far side of India from Gaumukh and with the air 35C warmer, boat skipper Tapan Das is as much in awe of the Ganges at its mouth as Amod Panwar was at its source....
...Germany’s largest energy producer, E.ON, has seen its income from conventional energy generation fall by a third since 2010....
...The on-demand economy, and the ability of e-business to respond to it, is making us more, rather than less, intolerant of delay. Same-day delivery is the mantra of quick-fire online shopping....
...Sergeant Gareth Thursby, 29, and Private Thomas Wroe, 18, were killed in the south of Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, on Saturday, in the latest in a string of attacks by the Afghan army – known...
...Three days later, a US army sergeant would go on a rampage in Kandahar province, killing 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children....
...Mr Lewis testified to the parliamentary committee that a Detective Sergeant Mark Maberly had told him in 2008 that files showed that 6,000 people were involved in the phone message hacking....
...I have recently read E.V. Lucas’s essay “The English Game” in his collection English Leaves....
...They sent me two e-mails and we are checking the system, but didn’t find what is wrong....
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