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...In just the first two weeks of its campaign, Israel used at least 1,000 air-to surface munitions daily, estimated John Ridge, an open-source intelligence analyst and munitions expert....
...Pape added: “History shows that mass bombing campaigns never break the enemy’s will. It does the opposite....
...A few works, beginning with Brazilian artist Lygia Pape’s luminous “Ttéia 1, C”, are both....
...Wine writer John Livingstone-Learmonth of drinkrhone.com has decades of experience of Rhône wines and their makers....
...About 10 years ago, John Forrest of Marlborough in New Zealand came up with a way of making low- (not no-) alcohol wine more naturally....
...Not all the fine singing in the world — and the singing is very fine indeed, from René Pape’s sonorous Sir John and Pavol Breslik’s effortlessly lyrical Fenton to Mandy Fredrich’s effervescent Frau Fluth...
...As Boccanegra’s nemesis Jacopo Fiesco, René Pape, in sumptuous voice, superbly projects both the patrician’s implacability and his emotional wounds....
...Resolving the Genworth actions was a long and costly process for the insurer, Ms Pape added....
...When John Williams of Frog’s Leap organised the first organic wine growing conference in Napa Valley in 1989, nine people turned up (“and I paid seven of them”, he claims)....
...In the village of La Livinière, Benjamin Darnault makes the Boulevard Napoléon wines for Trevor Gulliver of St John restaurant in London....
...new lease of life as trend-conscious producers increasingly treat it like Pinot Noir to coax super-fruity, round, perfumed wines from it that are nothing whatever like the French archetype Châteauneuf-du-Pape...
...Michel Chapoutier of the Rhône Valley, for example, has stated publicly that in hot vintages many a Châteauneuf-du-Pape could be improved by judicious “humidification”....
...mobiles and Miró’s “The Sorrowful March Guided by the Flamboyant Bird of the Desert” (which had an asking price of $20m), their common motifs languidly waving to each other across the booth, to a muted John...
...Department store John Lewis offers nostalgia in the form of quirky picnicware (from £7, by Orla Kiely) and retro print deck chairs (£75)....
...One of the most attractive features of the Avignon Festival’s official programming is its regard for small-scale works alongside the massive productions that fill the Palais des Papes....
...It’s always fun to see what specialists recommend, so I approached the choices of Rhône author John Livingstone-Learmonth with particular interest....
...There will be many lovers of the wines of Châteauneuf-du-Pape who don’t realise that two of the principal grape varieties responsible for it, Grenache Noir and Mourvèdre, are in fact Spanish....
...Fergus Henderson is co-proprietor of St John and author of ‘The Complete Nose to Tail’ (Bloomsbury) …………………………………………………………….....
...He eventually became a cardinal but not without engaging in passionate controversy with Pope John XXII on the question of apostolic poverty....
...As for the price, he said it “was not fixed yet”, but the record at auction for Pei-Ming’s work stands at just over £1m, for his 2004 portrait “Pape”, sold at Christie’s in June 2008....
...Pape is the consummate Boris, terrifying yet pitiable, a complex and charismatic ruler whose greatest battle is with himself. This is not Pape’s first Boris, but it is surely his best....
...When he came on to take his bow Rasch looked like John Tavener’s German twin, but his music could hardly be more different....
...Replacing René Pape in Boris Godunov’s death scene, John Tomlinson demonstrated the impact of carefully focused pathos....
...The rapid John Utaka has given them pace and a goal-scoring threat from deep, Sulley Muntari is a robust but technically adept battler, while Pape Bouba Diop has been as implacably huge at the back of the...
...Sarastro (René Pape) runs a field hospital for the maimed of mind and body. Branagh has proclaimed himself new to opera, which may be the best qualification for directing it....
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