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...It’s an alternate version of Cinderella in which the heroine, Celaena Sardothien, is an assassin rather than a maid — attending the ball not to meet the prince, but to kill him....
...That’s the view I had when I was a kid: that it was too serious and you had to have a certain kind of taste to understand it,” says José Balvin, aka J Balvin, the Latin reggaeton superstar who ranks among...
...During the 1997-98 Japanese turmoil, I would meet government officials to swap notes, often over onigiri rice balls....
...One aim of the Autumn Statement was to retain the option of calling an election in May, as Katy Balls explains in her column in this week’s Spectator....
...“My Father’s Legs” is published by J&L Books Erik Kessels Muddy Dance2021 Years ago, British newspapers would run “spot the ball” competitions: photographs of matches where the football had been edited...
...Trump; 2013 — Donald J. Trump; 2022 — Donald J. Trump; 2023 — Donald J. Trump. This year’s Super Bowl has a distinctively Trumpy flavour too....
...“We’re a bit more relaxed here because we have so many different ball colours....
...Think like an armadillo, ready to quickly roll up in to a shielded ball when a threat arrives, he suggested....
...Alternatively, if you can bear being a little preppy, the little woven elastic ones from Brooks Brothers or J. Press are attractive, cheap and come in many colours....
...The Americans are pricier still: former J Crew creative director Jenna Lyons commands $1,500 an hour, while Brooklyn-based influencer and interior designer Athena Calderone costs $2,000 to meet over Zoom...
...In his 2023 book A History of Fake Things on The Internet, Walter J Scheirer points out that many manipulated photographs are supposed to look manipulated....
...Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed former Ball Corporation chief John Hayes as an operating adviser....
...“It’s a big undertaking,” admitted Simon Roberts, chief executive of J Sainsbury. “We’ve got 600 supermarkets and this requires us to re-lay [change the layout of] significant parts of every store.”...
...“It is a hugely complex job . . . operations is effectively a ball juggling exercise and there is no doubt a few balls were dropped this summer,” he added....
...J Junk balls Those terrible looping shots that your opponent hits and you feel that you should hit for winners?...
...Created by Zélikha Dinga, a Paris-based cook, the “croquembouche” cone of assembled choux pastry balls measured just shy of a metre high, sprinkled with edible nasturtium flowers and three sparklers....
...But the balls Marichal threw, as the likes of Henry Aaron and Pete Rose told him, were the epitome of perfect control....
...In a city reinventing its restaurant scene, Silencio is positioned sometime in the late 1970s, part Art Nouveau revival, part vinyl-boothed café-tabac and part disco-ball glam....
...“Those whingeing politicians need to realise that politics is risk management writ large, and that they have dropped the ball,” wrote Mike Clark, founder of Ario Advisory....
...News round-up Ex-Goldman banker’s 1MDB trial paused after new evidence is disclosed (FT) The complex route to VW’s planned Porsche IPO (FT) J....
...On her return home, she refused to have a traditional debutante’s ball or to be presented at court, calling the whole thing “nonsense”....
...The fund has nine live projects, including Scottish film-maker Marianna Palka’s She’s Got Balls, which is due for release next year....
...Shake all the ingredients and strain over a low ball glass filled with ice....
...In the league of fantasy M&A, Lex took a look at what J Sainsbury might be worth to a private equity buyer....
...More than 40 countries signed a pact to phase out coal use at the Glasgow summit, but the US has refused to play ball....
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