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...His vice-president, Kamala Harris, is expected to speak later at Howard University with abortion rights activists....
...Highlights British Formula One star Lewis Hamilton has joined the group seeking to buy American football’s Denver Broncos....
...Enter Cyrano, another story-with-songs overseen by Working Title and a high-end British director in Joe Wright, returning to old-world Paris....
...This week the National Basketball Association off season took a turn when Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant reportedly offered team owner Joe Tsai an ultimatum on his demand for a trade, leading the Alibaba...
...When Joe Biden won anyway, Mr Trump insisted — as he had pre-emptively warned before the vote — that the election must have been “rigged”....
...New US president Joe Biden has promised to make healing the country’s racial divide a priority, alongside dealing with the pandemic....
...“There is no way I would ever vote for Joe Biden under any circumstances,” he says, mainly because of the abortion issue....
...The Peach State is the country’s top poultry producer — an unwelcome fact of life for Jill Howard Church, president of the Vegetarian Society of Georgia....
...The senator is a graduate of the historically black Howard University....
...The Hamilton soundtrack with a sprinkling of 1980s pop (Duran Duran, Queen, etc). What’s on your summer reading list?...
...… Frog, by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99 Blending social realism with the bizarre, China’s most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature tackles his country...
...This year’s Iron Man 3, starring Robert Downey Jr, is another success story, the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time....
...The cases are well made, though not always convincing: are we really ready for a Joe Versus the Volcano revival?...
...I was sad to read of Howard Davies’s departure as director of the LSE over its Libyan connections....
...Mr Hamilton’s Elysium: The Gardens of Painshill, by Michael Symes, Frances Lincoln RRP£35 In 1772, John Wilkes wrote that Hamilton had created a “veritable paradise” at Painshill....
...But weighing 350lbs never deterred William Howard Taft, whose swing, according to Don van Natta Jr, author of Hail to the Cheats, “resembled a sumo wrestler trying to swat a gnat”....
...She returned to advise Howard, by then the Conservative leader, in the Tories’ 2005 general election campaign....
...Columnist and lifelong Phillies fan Joe Queenan says they have been “pathetic without being lovable”. It is not that their history lacks colour or anecdote....
...There are paintings by Lucian Freud, Patrick Caulfield, Peter Blake, Frank Auerbach, Richard Hamilton, R.B. Kitaj, Howard Hodgkin, Joe Tilson and many more – a haul ofmore than 500 items....
...WRITERS ON HOWARD HODGKIN edited by Enrique Juncosa Tate ₤14.99, 208 pages The accompanying stocking-filler....
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