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...When they had the baby in November, they named him Bastian after a German footballer....
...Efforts at soft power, experts say, are aimed at countering the influence of Gulf rivals such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as well as the US, France, China and Russia....
...French forward Antoine Griezmann named him as the best player he’d ever faced: “I kept trying to put him under pressure, but it never worked.”...
...As first-year ice melts instead of getting old, as it used to, old, hard green and blue multiyear ice is released from packs and glaciers. You do not want to hit that stuff....
...It records how Elias, son of Adam Bradfot (Peter’s brother-in-law, therefore) rented out a property in Catte Street next to the premises of Laurence the bookbinder....
...He was prodigiously busy and productive, working close to the centres of power at the Stuart court, in the theatre, and among scholarly friends such as Robert Hooke and Elias Ashmole....
...To the roster of well-known names – Marinetti, Boccioni, Carra, Balla, Severini, Sant’Elia – she adds another cohort, responsible for the muted, mechanistic and deadened iterations of the 1920s and 30s....
...… Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard, RRP£29.95/ Belknap Press, RRP$39.95 This was the blockbuster success of 2014 and was named the Financial...
...President Hugo Chávez has named as his new vice-president Nicolás Maduro, the foreign minister, who is now being seen as the socialist leader’s anointed successor after he was struck with cancer last year...
...These main-dish characters are surrounded by starrily played side items – Brian Cox’s showbiz lawyer, Philip Baker Hall’s sombre handwriting guru, Elias Koteas and Donal Logue as overworked cops from two...
...My first stop was Stew Leonard’s, a landmark in Norwalk, Connecticut, known as the world’s largest dairy store....
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