Hints and tips:
...Brown, son of a church minister, recently gave a memorial lecture in honour of his late friend, the UK’s former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks. It was a defence of faith in public life....
...Monica grew up in Bolivia, one of 10 siblings. She was a strong and diligent child. On weekends, she swept hot red dust out of the local church....
...He befriended Joseph-Désiré Mobutu — “the most sincere US friend in Congo” — who took power in a coup, and handed his once-friend Lumumba to the Katangan secessionists who, ultimately, pulled the trigger...
...Instead, after a quarter of a century, he apparently resigned over a minor pay dispute....
...She was such a happy child, a happy teenager and happy adult. She was so adventurous, so loving, so caring....
...I drive home on the country roads I pedalled over as a child behind my father, when Forte was still a real-life Barbie land to me....
...I had sailed a little as a child; I have done some cruising; and in 2007 I came second in the Three Peaks Yacht Race, sailing up the west coast of the UK and climbing Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis...
...The Doodler shows a child hiding in a bedroom, drawing away; The Game has an ominous father figure standing, tense, over a small boy caught playing with dolls....
...Aged 18, I rolled my eyes when my father confessed to occasionally feeling too immature to have a grown-up child. What was he talking about?...
...I was a mess of ideas and insecurity, gut-wrenching fear and ambition. In these friends, I found my tribe....
...He squirmed over to look at the friend lying beside him. Gross was sleeping like a child....
...With friends like these . . ....
...As nurses in England and Wales gear up for their union’s first strike in more than a century next week — part of a winter of discontent involving paramedics, rail staff, postal workers and university lecturers...
...A friend and I had come to Berlin to visit another friend, Josh, at the Academy, and it was while we were waiting for him downstairs at the Academy’s stately 19th-century villa that I saw the Bösendorfer...
...State of Mind”), Jay-Z (“D’Evils”), Big L (“The Enemy”) and The Notorious B.I.G. (“Kick in the Door”), he has made a habit of producing their best songs....
...Once the historian Antonia Fraser came and asked my father, “Who would you say is your favourite child?” It was a scalding inversion, for a moment, of King Lear....
...But it is, it is as much a part of who I am as being a woman born to Nigerian parents, raised in X, Y and Z countries....
...Have a lovely weekend and we’ll find each other again next week....
...Lubin was born in 1964 in Toronto to a dentist father and property agent mother....
...Having being brought up at Holkham with all my father’s shooting friends, I’d never met anyone like that. Completely seduced me.”...
...filled up during the pandemic with millennials and Gen Z....
...He is usually portrayed as a high roller, a kingpin, like Jay-Z’s claim in his 2007 album American Gangster that he will be “the next Lyor”, before raising his sights even higher: “No, the next leader of...
...He had a young child to support. Touring and coaching costs were so high that his father had remortgaged their family home three times and his mother had taken on extra work shifts to support him....
...And I found a colleague, for example, who worked on Joseph Lubin, who was a Jewish also in the 1930. A man who wrote the most important standard book on family health. And I even know that book....
...The next thing you know you won’t have what you should have: some nice sensible stakes in a diversified range of investment trusts biased to long term growth....
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