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...Her admirers included Tsar Nicholas II, Queen Victoria, Georges Bizet, John Ruskin and Delacroix himself. Then she fell off the face of the earth. “How could such a person be forgotten?”...
...Todd Baker is a senior fellow at the Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy at Columbia....
...Shelves are stacked with sleeping cherubs, conch shells, lions, saints – even a figure of Pope John Paul II. History looms large at Ginori 1735....
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...But earlier this year he shut Number 10 – partly because he’d outgrown the space and its facilities – in order to launch a new restaurant on a more ambitious scale....
...“Head of Julia II”, downward-glancing, is radiant, lovely, self-effacement achieved through inner strength....
...Take a break from the news What makes Sir Elton John tick?...
...I’d guess Pete’s age at 37, but he turns out to be 65. There’s a touch of Shane Warne about him....
...But seeing the trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Gerry Mulligan play in a bar in San Francisco in the early 1950s proved a pivotal moment....
...And in a true sign of our times, there’s even a Devil Wears Prada musical coming to London later this year with music by Elton John....
...He told me: “You do always compare yourself with the best in your sport, just as the baker compares himself with the best bakers around him. Who makes the best croissant, the best pain au chocolat?...
...Between us, we’d like to think we publish a fairly decent amount of interesting articles....
...Dominic John, a 58-year-old director of a business coaching company from Buckinghamshire, recently moved from Val d’Isère to La Légettaz, 1km away, to upgrade from a two-bed to a three-bedroom apartment....
...Kenneth Baker, the Thatcher-era education secretary who was in many ways the most consequential holder of the post, also thinks that a separate core maths qualification is a good approach (Baker is one of...
...Bass quotes approvingly the great American historian of postwar Japan, John Dower, who wrote that the Japanese “embraced defeat”....
...John Paul II, a proponent of Escrivá, had just ascended the papal throne. He would soon make Opus Dei a “personal prelature”, the only one of its kind in the Church....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...“There’s an expectation that chefs are meant to work this way,” Ian Hodson, the national president of the bakers’ trade union, tells me....
...Uppingham is the nicer of the two towns, with its wisteria-clad houses, Friday market and a butcher, baker and hardware store....
...(He maintained Queen Elizabeth II’s Phantom IV.) “We had a Shadow in that’d done 200,000 miles – it was like new,” he says. Annual service costs are a modest £600-£1,200....
...The image of her ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II on US television show Saturday Night Live in 1992 confirmed her hallmark refusal to compromise her beliefs, and endeared her to a nation stifled by...
...“I don’t have a historic interest in UFOs,” Baker informed me curtly over email....
...I’d never had anything like that in my life at that cost, it was crazy. The last thing I bought and loved was an evening jacket. I had an accident with my normal one....
...on Friday 21 June 2019, the third day of the annual general assembly (GA) of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) in Spokane, Washington state, Eklof began handing out a book of three essays he’d...
...“Sprinting isn’t anything we’d ever really geared our programme for before.”...
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