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...Joseph Sissens was on sizzling form, chaining turns at warp speed, and young Marco Masciari — winner of the 2020 Prix de Lausanne — was vivid and touching as Dante Jr....
...The Varna gold medallist Fumi Kaneko set the bar chasteningly high, partnered by an elegant and attentive William Bracewell....
...The subject is Joseph Bologne, known as Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the 18th-century composer we see as a child arriving at boarding school....
...President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pushed for the creation of the SEC; Joseph Kennedy, the buccaneering Irish-American businessman, served as its first chair; William O Douglas, a feisty progressive lawyer...
...CPI and producer price index (PPI) inflation rate data EU: European Central Bank Economic Bulletin UK: Rics House Price Balance Results: 3i Group H1, ArcelorMittal FY, AstraZeneca Q3, Auto Trader H1, B&...
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...John B Powell, who became a hero as events unfolded, was The Chicago Tribune’s reporter in China....
...On the satin lapel of Michael B Jordan’s double-breasted Louis Vuitton tux, diamond birds alighted on two large pink and green stones. (The pins were Tiffany & Co’s “Bird on the Rock” style.)...
...In another debut, the British-Nigerian grime artist, rapper and producer Chief Joseph Olaitan Adenuga Jr, or Skepta, is unveiling his talent as a painter for the first time....
...In the 1840s, Crystal Palace architect Sir Joseph Paxton added the crenellated north range....
...Damian Williams, US attorney for the Southern District of New York, described the alleged crimes as “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”....
...As does BASF, the world’s largest chemical’s company, which under its wartime incarnation, IG Farben, manufactured Zyklon B for Nazi gas chambers....
...W E B Du Bois? Mahatma Gandhi?...
...Trevor Williams: No — it may have gone too far in raising taxes....
...In 1995, local philanthropist Mitchell Wolfson Jr opened The Wolfsonian, a South Beach museum devoted to 19th and 20th-century objects and design....
...The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, by Peniel E Joseph, Basic Books, RRP$30/£25, 384 pages In the year of Black Lives Matter, this comparative biography...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...If convicted he might have to trade in his jet-set life for a drab federal prison cell,” said FBI assistant director William F Sweeney Jr in a statement....
...The first concession message by a defeated candidate was in 1896, when William Jennings Bryan wired congratulations to William McKinley two days after the vote....
...It was founded in 1927 by cinema royalty — Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Mary Pickford and Louis B. Mayer — and hosted the first Academy Awards two years later....
...Trevor Williams: Monetary and fiscal policy a risk if wrongly used....
...The Navy’s elite Blue Angels squadron flew overhead, along with Air Force One, the plane that usually transports Mr Trump, F-22 Raptors and a B-2 stealth bomber....
...Dave Innes, head of economics at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation: There are two key factors determining when the UK economy will regain its pre-pandemic size....
...1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm Workers, Keene, California, June 27 1976; Charles Shaffer, attorney, New York, July 9 1976; Herbert J Miller Jr...
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