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...Guess who runs the best K-12 schools in America? The military. This isn’t surprising to me, as the military is all about execution....
...For decades, it was here that a hammer and sickle, carved into beige stone, looked down on Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue....
...“M on K”, my initials. And, increasingly, the monastic tonsure forming on my ageing pate. Real name Mark Kelmanson. Where are you? West Yorkshire, a hat’s throw from Ilkley Moor....
...The music the hammers make, and the scene as a whole, is both jarring and thrilling....
...Event appearances from the likes of K-pop phenom RM (Kim Nam-joon of BTS) and stars from Squid Game added to the buzz....
...Old Masters: Botticelli, Gentileschi and more One of the last privately owned masterpieces by Botticelli will go under the hammer this month in New York as part of Sotheby’s annual Masters Week sales series...
...It relies on self-compliance, but there is basically no hammer,” she said....
...If the US continues with its K-shaped recovery, the IMF’s prediction of post-pandemic upheaval may prove prescient. Edward Luce is on book leave and will return in mid-March....
...BTS’ global popularity, which is spearheading the rapid international expansion of the K-pop genre, means the company’s total valuation could be as much as Won6tn ($5bn), bankers close to the situation said...
...FT commenter Patnaik K V: Are central banks better prepared now, in terms of ammunition at their disposal, to respond to the economic fallout of this pandemic than they were in 2008?...
...“I hope to f**k it’s the last time and all.” Such defections may be outweighed by more considered tactical voting....
...“I don’t think there’s any great ideological difference between the DMK and AIADMK, quite frankly — but the personalities are important,” said K Pandiarajan, a senior AIADMK politician....
...Armed with hammers and crowbars, they smashed windows at a Crowne Plaza Hotel, and branches of Starbucks, Au Bon Pain and Palmer National Bank....
...Total revenues for US card companies came to $161.7bn in 2014, up about 11 per cent from a year earlier, according to R K Hammer, a consultancy....
...The artwork, which comes with a certificate of authenticity from Mr Bader, went under the hammer last week to an anonymous buyer for £10,000....
...Every one of the book’s mistakes was like a hammer-blow to me: we will come to the story of the “Wisden willie” later....
...On the other hand, in his 1983 story “Human Moments in World War III”, a futuristic piece that might be from the word-processor of Stanislaw Lem or even Philip K....
...What is horrifying is the thought of such a company managing your 401(k) or other investment. Troubling too is the prospect of what a series of glitches could do to the global economy....
...We turn to the floods, the worst for almost a century and a hammer blow on top of the insurgency. The governor rejects charges that the authorities were slow to respond....
...– the sauce slightly sweet and sour with onions and blanched almonds – and pigeon K’dra, where the almonds are crisp-roasted....
...In 2002, a Cheshire consortium unveiled “Encounter”, a.k.a “The Angel of the North West”, next to the M62....
...The man who become known as “The Hammer” for his ruthless management of the Republican revolution between 1994 and his withdrawal from politics in 2006 would recall this boyhood incident “several times a...
...“We teach them how to hammer and handle a screw gun. You teach them something once and they get it and by the end they’re a normal construction crew.”...
...With the departure of Mr DeLay, nicknamed “the Hammer” for his ability to pound out victories on tough votes, Republicans are looking for a leader who can hold together an increasingly fractious caucus....
...They point to the K-Street project, in which Mr DeLay threatened to shut out trade groups in Washington that failed to appoint Republican lobbyists....
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