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...Additional reporting by John Reed in Jerusalem....
...Lucy FisherYou heard there the newly elected Kier Mather for Labour, Sarah Dyke for the Lib Dems and Steve Tuckwell for the Tories....
...Now the building is under renovation, so his array of Vermeers, Van Dykes and Fragonards has gone on display at the Frick Madison, a modern building designed by Marcel Breuer....
...There’s an obvious trade-off and the store group John Lewis has begun making it by planning to turn some of its property across the UK into 7,000 rental homes....
...The most recognisable names — Sarah Jessica Parker, Floyd Mayweather, Jerry Springer, Dick Van Dyke, Snoop Dogg, John Cleese, Lindsay Lohan, David Hasselhoff — are no longer at the height of their careers...
...Greg Dyke, then chairman of the FA, had told me in 2013: “It could be that there’s just not a pathway through. There are a lot of bog-standard foreign players playing here today.”...
...In a seminal paper, Stergios Skaperdas, an economist, compared fighting organised crime to Holland’s struggle against the sea “painstakingly building dyke after dyke . . . while being prepared to be overwhelmed...
...It is the work of James Hart Dyke, an artist who was invited to spend a year with MI6 to commemorate the SIS centenary in 2009....
...Greg Dyke was an outspoken, convention-breaking television executive....
...Indeed, the best writing here is from John Steinbeck’s loving description of the Carmel river and its farms, sycamores, raccoons and frogs — “It’s everything a river should be” — in an excerpt from Cannery...
...We have entire communities that could be threatened by that [idea],” says sea level rise expert John Englander....
...The local people want the government to build a dyke, he says. “If they don’t do it, the land will collapse.” Like others in the delta, he blames the erosion on sand mining....
...Thus, when in 1634 Van Dyke made a double portrait of Charles I and Henrietta Maria displaying a modest bulge, he was showing a royal bride doing her job....
...One hundred years into the party’s domination, however, the electorate is convulsing and control of most seats west of Offa’s Dyke may be about to change hands....
...However, reports suggest he is so far resisting calls for a more aggressive approach from John Bolton, his hawkish national security adviser....
...But this misses the point, according to HKBA chairman Philip Dykes....
...The original album’s bassist and drummer Chris Lawrence and John Marshall completed the bill....
...john.gapper@ft.com...
...“The break has begun, and believe me, the fissure that opened up on April 30 is a fissure that’s going to turn into a crack and that crack is going to end up breaking the dyke,” he said....
...He lives at 17 Cherry Tree Lane with his three children: Annabel, John and Georgie (Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh and Joel Dawson, respectively)....
...The children are implausibly adorable little poppets, and Dick Van Dyke (whose role as a cheerful servile Limey is now assumed by Miranda) makes a re-appearance as chairman of the bank....
...Into his bag goes a second-hand paperback of John C Van Dyke’s 1901 The Desert. The cumulative effect of so much reading is an account of remarkable scope and depth....
...Philip Dykes, chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, the city’s regulatory body for barristers, fears that the rule of law is starting to fall victim to this political crackdown....
...“The hierarchy knew this was in decline, and so John Paul II was brought in as a kind of last-ditch stand to stop the dyke from bursting....
...Greg Dyke, former BBC director-general, said such concerns should not rule Sir David out. “It would be unfair to strike someone out who came up with such an obvious solution....
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