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...When Cameron mentioned that he’d like to put the show on for a longer run this year, I thought, “Well, I’d like to experience that again.”...
...“I’d draw the line at a Russian oligarch,” Yorke says when asked if there’s anyone he’d rather not buy one of his paintings, which are priced from £10,000....
...De Gaulle later upheld that recommendation and Pétain saw out his remaining days imprisoned on the Île d’Yeu, off the coast of Brittany, where he died in 1951....
...“We are past peak MBA,” Julian Birkinshaw, vice dean at the London Business School told the FT....
...And the imperative to keep updating its technical capabilities saw R&D expenditure rise by 71 per cent....
...At its current bargain price, we’d argue GSK appears worth the risk....
...We’d come down for the whole summer and it was a massive undertaking. Mum would drive down with the horses, the dogs and tons of food.”...
...After I’d had enough of McAllister’s diktats, I dived into To Marry an English Lord (1989) by Gail MacColl and Carol McD Wallace, which partly inspired Fellowes’ previous series, Downton Abbey....
...Julian Pelea is proof of that. A maestro relojero (master watch repairman), he left the island in 1998 and set up shop next to a 7-Eleven at a strip mall in Miami’s Key Biscayne neighbourhood....
...If you’d prefer to go for the simpler option, there are plenty of curtains out there....
...“We’d like realism on the need for investment in the underlying infrastructure. We can’t flick a switch,” said Hartley....
...“I’d never handed over the business to anyone before who operated at that kind of trust level,” she says. “I don’t think there has been a time where we don’t agree.”...
...If the run-off is against Bullrich, Cristina said she wasn’t sure what she’d do. “But if it’s against the Peronists, I’ll vote for Milei,” she said. “I wouldn’t think twice.”...
...“I don’t think you’d ever know that it was him behind Litquidity, even if you met him or he told you point blank....
...“I talked to one nice Australian visitor who joked, ‘I thought I’d just check that the whole place hadn’t been stolen,’” Beard says. It was a painful jest....
...When Billingham went on to do a fine art degree at the University of Sunderland, his tutor Julian Germain saw the photographs and recognised their promise as autonomous works....
...It’d be a lot less damp for one thing.” It seems that for many, period charm is for the outside, clean modern lines and comfort for indoors....
...“Only at Remy’s could you find a hornet’s nest casually draped over a mirror above the fireplace,” says the artist Angelica Hicks of the idiosyncratic interior of his former apartment in New York, the city...
...“We would go on holiday to Tuscany – he just knew all these interesting people and I’d be along for the ride....
...At the time I thought, ‘If I was a painter, I’d have painted that scene.’”...
...But then I thought, ‘Right, I’d better learn how to do this.’ And I went back for more.”...
...Obviously, the Julian calendar that we have come to know. Otherwise, some bits of surgery....
...No matter: those were the days I’d get in the car and drive. Up to the glacial lakes of Covadonga, glittering like sapphires among the limestone crags of the Picos....
...So in a sense, if it was just a numbers game, you’d think that Sunak would pay more attention to their concerns....
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