Hints and tips:
...Goodwin is a regular pundit on political chat shows, appeared as herself on The Simpsons, and a memoir recounting her childhood, Wait Till Next Year, was sufficiently authoritative on her hometown Brooklyn...
...Her parents were performers, with a lounge act in Vegas....
...In 1981, Hume had warned Opus Dei not to recruit minors and that the parents of young would-be members had to be involved in the decision to join....
...It’s my parents’ lives that were interesting.” Nguyen came to America aged four, with his brother and parents, as a refugee. It was 1975, the end of the Vietnam war....
...Madison Marriage And a detail I found moving was that Megan was also really affectionate with her mum. She had never gone through one of those teenage phases of being embarrassed to hug her parents....
...Laith woke up to a gun in his face, and his parents were not told where he was being taken....
...Her childhood dream had always been to live by the sea. One day, an Italian friend handed her the keys to her house in Forte. “And just like that, my dream came true.”...
...Their one and only meeting in London was, Jakubait claimed, an elaborate sting operation by a newspaper, which brought her face to face with her sister’s executioner....
...O’Neill wanted to depict Dunaway’s dawning realisation that her life was about to change for ever. Over the next few years, the two sparked up a relationship and married in 1983....
...Almost like the capital F, capital G, finance guy. He’s somebody who is extremely ambitious. He’s somebody who wants to do that dreaded word, disrupt a market....
...One classmate there remembered Crastes as a “very hard-working” young man, who was “quite discreet, reserved and serious”, and yet still a good friend....
...[LAUGHTER] I almost said the F-word. And I didn't, because my friends are sitting in the front row and they were raised well. No, I didn't. Are you kidding?...
...The decision to rein in Gove’s spending will gum up machinery both in the beleaguered ministry and in Number 11, as each tiny project, however minor, has to go through for approval....
...He says that he and Li were close friends for a time when Wang Dan was living in the US, meeting to discuss the prospects of Chinese democracy. He was one of the best men at Li’s next wedding....
...Passing through the warm orange-and-brown maze of reception, living and dining rooms brings you out into a huge courtyard shaded by a grand old tree....
...I first heard of the French Football Academy in New York the same way that Doris Josovitz did, through a friend whose children play youth football in the city....
...We were sitting together on a sofa sandwiched between two grand pianos, a warm breeze blowing in through the windows of her high-rise Tbilisi apartment....
...That it all seems to me that I was given a lot of life early on. And I feel that that perspective, maybe by sharing it, other people can realise that they’ve all been through a lot of stuff....
...Meanwhile in London, Rossbach, a stranger who’d been contacted by Kostya’s parents through a mutual friend, was fighting the Home Office to get him a visa, and trying to get him some education....
...And most of the adults I knew well were my parents’ close friends, and many of them were also refugees. So my family was, as it were, a collection of refugees....
...He did his own press, which got noticed by big London DJs like Tony Monson. Errol Michael HenryYou know, I still now have very few friends....
...She logs on from her kitchen, early morning light pouring in through large windows behind her and bouncing off stainless steel surfaces....
...At local tournaments, his son’s pram sat courtside next to his other gear, Kicker praying he would sleep through the match....
...Nicola was in a local shop with her friends when she got a phone call from a health worker asking her to describe the most difficult experiences of her life....
...Princess Margaret is mostly remembered as rude and rudderless. To Glenconner, the Queen’s sister was a loyal, upbeat friend, and “wonderful” when her son Henry was ill with Aids....
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