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...Until February 16; further information and tickets here ‘Manon’, Royal Opera House The Royal Ballet’s revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s gorgeous 1974 classic, with a score drawn from across Massenet’s work...
...So too, as Richard V Reeves notes in Of Boys and Men, his new study of the pressures facing males in the schoolyard and the workplace, do the Ivy League universities in America....
...Puzzle 2486 Samuel Sevian v Wojciech Przybylski, Titled Tuesday 2021. White to move and win. The position appears completely blocked, but there is a hidden route through Black’s defences....
...By 1988, at still only 27, he was directing Dench in his film of Henry V. It won him Oscar nominations as Best Actor and Best Director....
...Maybe a contributing factor could be if a person grew up in the former Soviet Union and went to Moscow State University and attended on a V I Lenin academic scholarship.”...
...Joanna Page, 44, is best known for her role as Stacey Shipman in the BBC’s Gavin & Stacey....
...In Civilisation, Kenneth Clark declared that “the discovery of the individual was made in early 15th-century Florence”....
...As always, reach out to us at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com with thoughts and topics....
...For years, Northern Irish writer and film-maker Stacey Gregg never imagined moving back home, let alone securing the backing to shoot the kind of movies that she wanted to make there....
...On Thursday, Vladimir Putin said Russia, which manufactures the Sputnik V vaccine, would also support the move....
...having to endure hour after hour of lies, fraud & deception by Shifty Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer & their crew, looks like my lawyers will be forced to start on Saturday, which is called Death Valley in T.V....
...WHERE TO SEEThe Jewellery Gallery at the V&A, London....
...FT's Kiran Stacey looks at why Amazon claims President Donald Trump pressured the defence department to hurt the tech group’s founder Jeff Bezos...
...Wearing a thin gold necklace with charms spelling V-O-T-E, Mrs Obama accused Mr Trump of a “total lack of empathy” in a speech that was the standout performance on the opening night....
...Job moves Gambling group GVC’s long serving boss Kenneth Alexander is leaving after 13 years....
.../Rachid Director of the V&A And five for younger quizzers . . ....
...Additional reporting by Lauren Fedor and Kiran Stacey in Washington...
...Roy Jenkins, Kenneth Clarke, Michael Portillo, David Miliband and George Osborne are just a few political heirs apparent who never clinched the top job....
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading Just one in 10 fund managers expect V-shaped recovery V, U, W, L — just a handful of the letter-shaped recoveries that investors have put forward as possible paths for the...
...Some, such as Jim Leaviss of Bond Vigilantes, and Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (see page 114), believe it did....
...Additional reporting by Tabby Kinder in London, Olaf Storbeck in Frankfurt, and Kiran Stacey in Washington...
...Additional reporting by Kiran Stacey...
Officials to lobby against Chinese company at world’s biggest telecoms trade show
...The demographics in Georgia are already rapidly changing, demonstrated by Stacey Abrams’ strong showing in the governor’s race....
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
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