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...It’s got the salty monk’s beard [a samphire-like vegetable], then the smoky tang of tomatoes, but I’d like some bread.”...
...“Genius has no sex,” said Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, bestowing upon her the first female Légion d’Honneur in 1865....
...Todd Baker is a senior fellow at the Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy at Columbia....
...Many, like Baker, felt excluded by mainstream institutions such as Tate....
...There he entertained everyone from King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the Clintons, Warren Buffett, Madonna, James Dyson and Arnold Schwarzenegger....
...Take a break from the news What makes Sir Elton John tick?...
...John le Carré took months to construct the opening of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)....
...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?...
...Before the coronation of King Charles III, the leader of the UK’s republican campaign group, Graham Smith, had rarely featured beyond the fringes of the media....
...Between us, we’d like to think we publish a fairly decent amount of interesting articles....
...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...
...“I always thought there’d be a moment when we would make a bigger impact. I didn’t quite think it’d be courtesy of the Metropolitan Police,” adds Smith, his ginger cat now sitting on his lap....
...“It’s an Edward III gold quarter noble, dating from the 14th century,” French exclaims. “It’s the find of a lifetime.” Jones is beside himself....
...I’d be no better than equal weight.” So far this year, the S&P banks index is down about 12 per cent, while the benchmark S&P 500 has risen more than 13 per cent....
...“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....
...“I don’t have a historic interest in UFOs,” Baker informed me curtly over email....
...Biden is not set to meet King Charles III, the British monarch, during his short visit to the UK; the president’s wife Jill will represent him at next month’s coronation....
...“Demand from buyers dropped at the end of 2022 but we have seen them return this year, keen to buy something at the right price,” says Robert Green, of John D Wood & Co estate agency....
...“I’d characterise it as 95 per cent enthusiasm and 5 per cent activity at the moment, but in the next few months that will change and there will be a lot of dollars flowing,” he said....
...Her latest project is a knitwear capsule for the house’s Scottish Métiers d’Art brand, Barrie – “my dream travel wardrobe”....
...It might also facilitate work by Joe Kennedy III, US special envoy to Northern Ireland for economic affairs, to foster more American investment in the region....
...John Kirby, a spokesperson for the US National Security Council, said on Monday: “It’s a bit of a marriage of convenience, I’d say, less than it is of affection.”...
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