Hints and tips:
...For a long time, Britain resisted the charms of John Mayer....
...john.thornhill@ft.com...
...Then there was a monumental bowl of mussels, plucked recently from the river Exe and steamed in wine ’til their juices freely mingled with cream and fresh herbs....
...“Cast your mind back to 1215,” he says wistfully, recalling it was the hereditary peers and bishops who forced King John to make his Magna Carta concessions at Runnymede....
...No partner wants to hear about your exes....
...Eventually, Mr John broke the news matter-of-factly during an office briefing devoted mainly to plans for expansion....
...New York-based menswear designer John Varvatos recently consulted on the design of the Chrysler 300C John Varvatos Limited Edition, which will be presented at the New York International Auto Show this month...
...John Maynard Keynes, for instance, lost his personal fortune speculating at the time, and his father had to bail him out....
...There are exes and mentors and siblings with strange judgment. With far more of a social cross-section than previous royal weddings, Friday’s event promises a colourful spectacle. 1....
...they think four is optimum) of what I assume are “design team” members as opposed to brand name designers (this is not, in fact, specified, and they do name check Mr Ford, as well as Karl Lagerfeld and John...
...As the row over MPs’ expenses and bankers’ bonuses rumbles on, what about the exes and the bonuses of Whitehall’s top people?...
...However, independent pensions expert John Ralfe reminds me that we do know he receives a pension of around £90,000 ($147,753) a year from the public purse....
...Fred, a poet, weds neurotic Connie; Mary, a painter, hooks up with deli owner Frankie; Carl and Red are Connie’s exes and function here chiefly as comic relief....
...He stayed there a while and became friendly with such key ab-exes as Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell and, particularly, Mark Rothko....
...Of these calls, 30 per cent are to exes, 19 per cent to current partners and 36 per cent to "anyone and everyone". We should all sleep easier....
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