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...Helen has been abducted and raped, and her author Homer does not just excoriate the victim but picks her to spit the venom. Did Homer loathe his subject?...
...Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox (Allen Lane) With a long-held adoration of the great epic poem, English historian and FT gardening columnist Lane Fox presents a many-threaded study of Homer’s work...
...“Neeeerrrrd,” you can imagine Trump shouting at him, à la Homer Simpson, across a TV debate studio....
...Except he’s not Homer.” Anderson professes equanimity about these rhetorical assaults. “Some of the worst reviews I’ve ever had I thought, well, yup, fair point,” he says....
...I was researching a rewriting of Homer’s epic that placed Penelope (Odysseus’s wife) and her work as a weaver at its centre....
...He is Andrew Makinde (Adrian Lester), a serious and solemn man who, it transpires, succeeded in a coup against Boris Johnson....
...“It looks to me as though the company concerned has broken the law and we will be taking action,” Johnson told MPs....
...Recently, the US regulator has shown it is open to considering versions of drugs better-known for their recreational properties, approving Johnson & Johnson’s drug based on ketamine for treatment-resistant...
...When I was at school in Lancashire in the 1980s, we had a formidable headmistress, Miss Dorothy Lester. She simply had to stand in the doorway of a classroom and the whole class would fall silent....
...Adrian Lester plays Britain’s first black prime minister, who ousted Boris Johnson 15 months earlier and now comes into conflict with GCHQ figures including its head of operations (Simon Pegg)....
...Okri’s script, drawn from a 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem, unfolds a story that predates Homer....
...The bank is now obliged to share further documentation linked to Johnson and other top US executives including Lester Pataki and John Gibbons....
...Meanwhile, in the UK the war of words between Boris Johnson and businesses over who is responsible for shortages of goods and labour looks set to intensify....
...As well as In a Silent Way, he played for Miles Davis on 1970’s Bitches Brew and 1971’s A Tribute to Jack Johnson. His love of flamenco led to collaborations with Spanish maestro Paco de Lucía....
...Boris Johnson’s party trick is reciting the opening lines of The Iliad in Greek....
...Simon Lester of the Cato Institute sagely points out that, to withstand arbitration, governments will probably establish some kind of agency or quasi-judicial mechanism to assess those effects, which will...
...Putting the two departments back together has been a long-term ambition of Mr Johnson....
...Homer Simpson, Darth Vader and Captain America have a shared back-story: they were all brought to Disney by Kevin Mayer....
...Ms Lester said she was “cautiously optimistic” that federal regulation would follow....
...UK contractor Kier has appointed Matthew Lester, an accountant who sits on the board of Capita and Barclays, as its non-executive chairman. He replaces Philip Cox....
...Joelle Lester, director of tobacco control for the Public Health Law Center, commended Mr Gottlieb’s measures, saying they represented the biggest moment in the fight against tobacco addiction since the...
...“This is an industry with a fatally flawed premise of requiring addiction, illness and death to be successful,” Ms Lester said. “I would welcome the end of the tobacco industry.”...
...In Johnson’s strange, dreamlike world, Marcus is sometimes Margot, with terrible truths of his/her own to evade....
...There have been previous scuffles between Canadian prime ministers and US presidents — among them a stand-off between Lyndon B Johnson and Lester Pearson during the Vietnam war....
...Mark Homer, a property consultant from Peterborough, voted to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum....
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