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...“As a photographer, one has to accept the fact that one does invade other people’s privacy,” Eve Arnold commented in a BBC documentary in the 1980s....
...Fleming’s ever-dominating mother Eve forbade the match. Fleming’s lawyer chum Ernie Cuneo detected in James Bond’s philandering “Ian’s revenge for the terrible hurt”....
...De Broglie is a former M&A banker, the head of Parisian taxidermy emporium Deyrolle, and the son of Prince Jean de Broglie, a Gaulliste former foreign minister who was assassinated on Christmas Eve in 1976...
...Transport secretary Mark Harper said: “[Our] rail network now faces more harmful disruption rather than helpful discussion.”...
...But while new Transport Secretary Mark Harper has promised “a proper seven-day railway”, which doesn’t depend on volunteers to run, it’s not clear how he’ll get it....
...“If the Christmas Eve strike goes ahead, we need to crack on with the anti-strike laws early in the new year,” said one minister....
...asked Mark Harper, former Tory chief whip and chair of the Covid Recovery Group. “We can’t go on like this.”...
...But Mark Harper was put in by Rishi Sunak to be a slightly more emollient character, shall we say, than some of the predecessors....
...It arrived on the morning of Christmas Eve, which turned out to be an event for the whole family....
...“Carmel Snow [editor-in chief of the US edition of Harper’s Bazaar]; the ambassador of England, a lot of important people....
...When Eve loses her famous actor father suddenly, she confronts her loss by scouring obituaries in the papers, while her mother keeps on carrying on. Insightful and funny....
...Three Daughters of Eve , by Elif Shafak, Viking, RRP£14.99 / Bloomsbury, RRP$27 Shafak’s topical 10th novel is both an interrogation and a defence of Muslim identity....
...That was the consensus among dinner guests at the New Year’s Eve party I attended....
...A Baptist minister, he still teaches Sunday school at his church and delivered the eulogy at last year’s funeral of his friend Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird....
...AUGUST … Forest Dark, by Nicole Krauss, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99/Harper, RRP$27.99 A Tel Aviv-set novel from the author of The History of Love (2005)....
...The two men hope to be in Germany in time to celebrate New Year’s Eve....
...Russian-backed rebels and pro-Kiev forces launched offensives in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as the two sides fought over territory on the eve of peace talks in Minsk....
...The Festival of Insignificance, by Milan Kundera, Faber, RRP£14.99/Harper, RRP$23.99, 128 pages Simon Schama is an FT contributing editor Illustration by Simon Pemberton...
...Neville Hawcock Fiction in translation A General Theory of Oblivion, by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated by Daniel Hahn, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99/Archipelago, RRP$18 On the eve of Angola’s independence...
...Stephen Harper, Canadian prime minister, was more robust at the official greeting session....
...In a joint letter to President Barack Obama of the US, the Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, and President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico, the main lobbying groups for large companies in the three countries...
...Daniel Mendelsohn, for example, one of the NYRB’s regular critics, told me how Silvers telephoned on New Year’s Eve (also Silvers’ birthday) to discuss some ideas....
...‘All About Eve: The Photography of Eve Arnold’, is published by teNeues, £45. An exhibition, ‘All About Eve’, is at Art Sensus, London SW1, until April 27...
...“I arrived on the last flight to Sydney on New Year’s Eve, and took off my Tag Heuer watch to show that I had left that world behind.”...
...In 1952 she enrolled on a six-week course at the New School for Social Research in New York, run by Alexei Brodovitch, the art director of Harper’s Bazaar....
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