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...Not far beyond London’s M25 orbital motorway, the picturesque Henley-on-Thames transforms into a river racecourse, with crews of rowers in colourful club blazers....
...Georgia wears Jakke faux-fur Katrina coat, £299. Tod’s suede dress, POA. Polo Ralph Lauren silk top (worn as scarf), £305....
...Spun out of Oxford university in 1999, it is pioneering a new generation of medicines to treat cancers, viral infections and autoimmune diseases from the leafy market town of Abingdon-on-Thames....
...At one point, perspective switches to Kay’s dying mother, who is using a technology that stores her consciousness to pass down to her children....
...Katrina* was a few days into quarantine in a hotel room in Hong Kong when she received a phone call saying her infant child had tested positive for coronavirus at the airport....
...Walpole’s book was inspired by the strange house he created at Strawberry Hill on the banks of the Thames near Richmond....
...Mervyn King, in his book with John Kay Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an unknowable future, makes a similar point; computer models should inform decision-making, but do not replace the need for...
...In telling the story behind Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the starting point at least is not in doubt: that “golden afternoon” of July 4 1862, when on a boat trip from Oxford up the river Thames to the...
...Katrina Forrester, an assistant professor of government and social studies at Harvard who has known Srinivasan for several years, tells me that her impatience with that narrowness is important....
...Kay Bailey Hutchison, US ambassador to Nato, said Moscow was “on notice” of possible “countermeasures” should it fail to stop development of a new cruise missile that Washington claims breaches the Cold...
...Last week, Jim Mattis, US defence secretary, said such “blatant violation” was “untenable” just two days after Kay Bailey Hutchison, America’s ambassador to Nato, said the US was prepared to “take out” the...
...The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons , edited by David Remnick and Bob Mankoff, Thames & Hudson, RRP£75 Do cartoons work in a cased encyclopaedia? You bet....
...Kay Bailey Hutchison, US ambassador to Nato, had issued a warning about the direction of Europe’s plans for growing defence co-operation....
...More than a century after Claude Monet painted views of the river Thames from a balcony at The Savoy in London, artists of all persuasions are being invited to hotels....
...The US’s National Flood Program, a government-run insurer, has been in the red since Hurricane Katrina in 2005....
...For several years, politicians played with the fantasy that an airport might be built at Foulness in the Thames estuary. But this proposal never made economic sense....
...The “Singapore-on-Thames” model, Ms Hewson said, was both derogatory to the Asian city-state and likely to infuriate other EU countries, which would retaliate....
...The answer is that no one does, any more than anyone owns the river Thames, the National Gallery, the streets of London, or the air we breathe....
...Certain critics of modern finance are easy to dismiss, especially when viewed from the skyscrapers above the Thames or the East River....
...Woolf’s love of gardening runs through her books and her collective works mention 94 different flowers — as counted by US academic Elisa Kay Sparks....
...The commission has rejected grand visionary schemes, such as “Boris Island” – a new airport in the Thames Estuary favoured by Boris Johnson, London’s populist mayor. Given the history, they were right....
...The couple’s housekeeper, Kay, takes charge of domestic duties. Shirley prefers to spend any spare time reading in a crimson armchair in the living room next door....
...In this excellent book, Kay, a fellow columnist on the FT, explains how this came about and what to do about it....
...But Nicholas Kay, UN special representative for Somalia, says “donor confidence . . . was definitely knocked sidewards by the central bank affair”....
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