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...The museum believed it was paying the money to the right account to buy John Constable’s “A View of Hampstead Heath: Child’s Hill, Harrow in the Distance” (1824) from London’s Dickinson Gallery....
...John Outram, perhaps the most exuberant of practitioners, features heavily in the Soane show (his magnificent “Temple of Storms” pumping station on the Isle of Dogs was listed last year and his Judge Business...
...“It would appear John was not the detail man that we hoped he was,” said one top ten shareholder....
...Yet as an administrative venture it would be “absolutely all-consuming”, said Andrew Turnbull, the former head of the UK civil service. “The job is vast.”...
...Brian Martin, the senior judge who will lead it, said he would investigate whether “racism does or doesn't play a role” in the juvenile justice system....
...You can’t judge any of these books by their cover, because they all look the same. You can, though, judge them by their content, which betrays a rare inattention to detail....
...Results of a referendum that ended on Thursday will come as a blow to John Key, the country’s popular prime minister, who spearheaded the push for a new flag and described it as a once-in-a-generation opportunity...
...For years the Pritzker judges validated this notion by rewarding mainly the established architects — Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry and IM Pei, for example — none of whom built much until they were beyond middle...
...Indeed, the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission notes that 59 per cent of the British cabinet, three-quarters of senior judges, half of diplomats, etc, went to Oxbridge....
...The next step, Prof Turnbull said, was to demonstrate that the technique is safe in humans. “I can’t second judge the experiment,” he said....
...The change came about in very peculiar circumstances, which even the Cabinet Secretary of the time, Lord Turnbull, called “a complete mess-up”....
...Other members of the group are Lyon & Turnbull, Lawrences of Crewkerne and the Russian art specialist William MacDougall....
...However, Turnbull – a Rhodes scholar and former Goldman Sachs executive – is not going anywhere. Turnbull may have lost the battle but not necessarily the war....
...But what if Martin has to argue a case before those same New York judges?...
...George Grayson, an academic at the College of William & Mary who is writing a book on Mr López Obrador, warns that his opponents are playing into his hands....
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