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...Stewart, often derided as a romantic, argues politics should look more to operational issues. “If we focused more on the practical details, I think we’d find we agree much more.”...
...From the 1920s onwards she worked for John D Rockefeller Jr, planning a landscape of native plants along the roads he was laying on the island....
...Albert Pierrepoint was born in March 1905, the middle child of Mary and Henry Pierrepoint....
...It’ll leave many viewers feeling as if they’d been covered in marzipan, cake and royal icing. ★★★☆☆ On Amazon Prime Video from August 11...
...The other was when I did well at Indianapolis in 1966 [Stewart had to retire from the lead with nine laps to go], and the Texan, John Mecom Jr, who owned the team I drove for, was so pleased with my position...
...He is in the UK to unveil his first formal portrait painting (other than self-portraits) of a living subject, “Henry Louis Gates Jr” (2020), which he has donated to Cambridge university....
...The Washington Post’s always sage EJ Dionne Jr captures the stakes — and utter recklessness — and points out that “the cruelty is the point”....
...Rory Stewart, the former Tory minister who briefly ran against him, calls him “a sympathetic character, but not a chief executive....
...The announcement this year of a mooted remake of Vertigo (with Robert Downey Jr in the role played by James Stewart) provoked spluttering at the temerity rather than outrage that the man behind the original...
...He’d been unable to repay a €3.5mn loan....
...Stewart died in 2014 and the house has been sold twice since, for C$15mn in 2016 and C$18mn in 2020....
...If you can look beyond the blacked-up Sammy Davis Jr impersonation, you may still see its appeal. But the landscape has changed. In 1977, Britain had just two broadcasters: the BBC and ITV....
...A vicious police attack on Basquiat’s street-artist friend Michael Stewart brings matters to a head. The two leads are superbly physical....
...Hearn Jr, long teased as Silver Spoon by his dad, is now arguably the world’s most powerful boxing promoter, occupying a role once held by Don King....
...“For anyone who’d been involved in a serious national campaign, they were just ridiculous,” says Mandelson....
...I’d be pretty blind without them. The idea I wish I’d come up with myself is Elon Musk’s [satellite constellation] Starlink....
...It is still a cosmopolitan refuge, it is just that the refugees have changed; these days they are more likely to be from Libya or Senegal or Côte d’Ivoire....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...— Henry D Wolfe, Chicago, Illinois...
...“It’s been a lot of work, but if I had to describe it, I’d say it’s been joyous. The kids are just adorable. It’s going to be something we really miss.”...
...In the early days, the season along the Côte d’Azur went from September through April. The major hotels, including the du Cap, closed for the summer....
...“When I opened in Florida in 2005, I had a prominent male collector tell me that if I wanted to be successful or make money, I’d have to show more men,” she recalls....
...With works such as Deller’s in mind, Jonathan D Katz, an art historian and adviser to the exhibition, argues that mainstream ideas of masculinity have become increasingly “queered”, with stereotyped ideals...
...For the launch of the FT’s 2019 seasonal appeal in support of the Zoological Society of London, Henry Mance travels to Mongolia, where many rare animals are under threat....
...Henry Foy is the FT’s Moscow bureau chief. Max Seddon is an FT Moscow correspondent Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
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