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...An intense encore, Harold Mabern Jnr’s “In What Direction Are You Headed?”...
...What follows is a study of language and power so filled with weaponised niceties that Harold Pinter would have been proud to write it....
...Prima Facie Harold Pinter Theatre, London Two plays, separated by four centuries, worlds apart in gravity, tone and style, and yet with one huge common factor: they’re both about women wronged by men....
...The best gift I’ve given recently is a pre-1910 locket from Gray & Davis, a vintage jewellery shop in New York....
...The UK’s former Brexit supremo David Davis has urged the use of high-dose vitamin D supplements, while Donald Trump advocated hydroxychloroquine....
...Celebration (2000) is closer to Restoration comedy in tone: a merciless social satire about a couple of wealthy East End wide-boys (Cook and Phil Davis) treating their wives (Celia Imrie and Tracy-Ann Oberman...
...For two years from March 1974, Callaghan’s predecessor, Harold Wilson, became even more exhausted leading with no majority or a tiny dwindling one....
...House steward Helen Davis explains this would have been scrap paper used by the bookbinder, and “Harold and Vita wouldn’t have seen it”....
...That’s a little unfair, since the original script by Davis has been around for a year or three (adapted from her BBC radio drama series)....
...One of the band’s co-leaders, veteran pianist Harold Mabern, had been taken ill and was replaced on piano by Mike LeDonne, with saxophonist Seamus Blake added to join leader Eric Alexander on tenor in the...
...Michele Davis, a Morgan Stanley spokesperson, said: “I can confirm that he has been terminated for conduct inconsistent with our values and in violation of our policies.”...
...The English patrician Harold Macmillan struck up an unlikely rapport with John F Kennedy, an Irish-American Catholic....
...With Amber Rudd remaining as home secretary and David Davis as Brexit secretary, the biggest change involved David Lidington, the pro-European justice secretary, becoming Mrs May’s right-hand man....
...David Davis, Brexit secretary, predicts “mutual interests” will come to the fore. “In accession you take what you are given . . . You comply. You are assessed....
...Harold Macmillan, British prime minister from 1957 to 1963, had been wounded five times in the first world war....
...At 3,343 sq ft, the home is “cosy” by neighbourhood standards, according to agency owner Harold Clarke, but you “can hear the ocean, smell the ocean”, he says....
...Harold Macmillan had social advantages to embarrass any of them, but the prime minister from 1957 to 1963 also sustained wounds in the great war and feigned death to escape enemy soldiers....
...Then, at Downing Street, Mr Juncker was disturbed to hear Mrs May and David Davis, her Brexit secretary, revert to outlandish positions on the UK’s “exit bill”, and on the timing of talks on a future EU-UK...
...Mr Clark’s new ministry bears some similarities to Harold Wilson’s shortlived Department of Economic Affairs, set up the 1960s as a direct challenge to the Treasury’s dominance....
...If a week was, as Harold Wilson said, a long time in politics in the 1960s, a morning is an aeon in the 2010s....
...Think Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan in the 1950s, Stanley Baldwin in the 1930s, even Lord Salisbury in the 1890s....
...Then, when Harold Macmillan changed his mind, for fear of being left out of an economic success story, his membership bid was vetoed by France’s president Charles de Gaulle....
...Economist Lucas W Davis, again in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, concludes that there is little prospect of a nuclear renaissance because nuclear power stations simply cost too much to build....
...So is Mr Cameron simply another born-to-rule Old Etonian content to manage the country in the style of his hero Harold Macmillan? Or is there a Cameroon vision waiting to emerge?...
...He worked for Davis Polk & Wardwell, a top-tier US firm, in the 1990s. He realised something was wrong when a partner asked him to prepare a client’s bill....
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