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...The session is calming and seems to chime particularly with those working from home at the end of the week....
...I head off for breakfast wondering what the day holds. Great American universities such as Columbia are world leaders and repositories of extraordinary learning....
...creation at the head of the Marshwood Vale, and a yew-and-sculpture garden belonging to British furniture maker John Makepeace in Beaminster....
...As well as new dates in Porto, the festival will also head to Madrid for the first time this year....
...A small group of savants, hunched behind nine-screen workstations, were told to start selling off as much of the company’s eclectic investment portfolio as they could, as fast as possible....
...Trump goes back to his table, and Kramer and I head towards the exit. Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” is playing as we make our way out....
...investigation into the collapse of the German payments group....
...One of these sketches, a portrait of “John Doe 1”, was soon identified by the owner of the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas, where the suspect had stayed. His name was Timothy McVeigh....
...I’ve got house insurance but instead of paying £300 . . . I’m paying nearly £2,000....
...As they put it, you won’t “bang your head on advertising posters or stumble across stacks of bestsellers as soon as you walk in the door”. tronsmo.no CR Tsutaya Books, Tokyo Tokyo is full of fascinating...
...“I still go for a horse ride on the beach when I go home,” she says. “Seven Mile Beach is my happy place.” Long before Assange, a different activist changed Robinson’s life....
...The year I turned 21, Jane was the first adult to offer me a beer, one of her pony bottles of Heineken....
...The following month, the House of Commons approved the proposals by just 21 votes. Polling suggests that the public has not since come round to the higher fees....
...He was with two other men, said to be officials of the UN. For days, the group shared meals and outings, discussing “the House of Aragon”, which Rejniak described as a Vatican trading platform....
...Speak No Evil, by Uzodinma Iweala, John Murray, RRP£18.99/Harper, RRP$26.99 A long-awaited second novel by the author of Beasts of No Nation....
...From John Nickson, London, UK...
...On an empty beach, I stumbled upon the skeleton of an Arctic fox curled up on the edge of the grass, like a dog waiting for its owner to return home....
...But inside its headquarters — home since September — it boasts many of the trappings of ambitious young technology companies: an in-house café, a purple-baized pool table that matches the corporate colour...
...That night, a group of Catholic volunteers from the Pope John XXIII Community offer iced tea and croissants to her and other prostitutes in the area....
...In 1997, the entrepreneur was held up by muggers near his home in St John’s Wood, where the couple and their young children, Chloe and Brandon, were living....
...Koh’s verse addresses the split inheritance of his postcolonial upbringing, as well as the tension between an émigré’s longing for home and rejection of nostalgia....
...Jane Owen...
...Wealthy widows’ estates have always been a prime source of revenue for the auction houses, for a number of reasons....
...The life of a young British officer in India with “a horse or two, part of a house, a pleasant Mess, plenty of pale ale, as much shooting as he can manage, and an occasional invitation to a dance” had plenty...
...Soane even had the effrontery to write a narrative, Crude Hints towards an History of my House, in which he imagined a future archaeologist inspecting the fragments of his home, wondering if they were the...
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