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...There are five people gathered on the porch for a high-school reunion in The Comeuppance. But, as quickly becomes clear, there is also an uninvited guest....
...The Lex column declared it “a full pot-kettle-black emergency,” noting that “first responders in high-viz jackets have been directing bystanders away from the irony spillage.”...
...“In the 1930s there was a mountaineering school here. The first cabin was built in 1937, for hiking tours, then in the ’60s there was the ski school — summer skiing on the glaciers.”...
...Many peaks were first climbed by British and locals together,” Alex grins as he readies his daughter for school....
...Summers were for “scrumping”, or pinching apples off neighbours’ trees, and for climbing high atop hay bales....
...As an interior decorator of some 30 years’ standing, I’ve seen my fair share of high-drama house moves....
...All the rooms are grand, but perhaps most charming is the former chapel, La Capilla, with its high-domed ceilings and arched doors....
...This year the snow finally returned around January 8 — conditions right now, at the start of the key school holiday weeks, are good in much of the Alps....
...If it’s my turn to wash up, I’ll only ever use the cold tap or the kettle to spare the boiler. I’ve also long since given up milk in my porridge. I use the kettle for that too....
...Commodity funds are making a comeback after years out of favour, as institutional investors seek hedges against stubbornly high global inflation....
...My frozen hands light the stove and shovel snow into a massive metal kettle; I wait for it to melt, then boil....
...“China’s first- and second-tier cities, and third-, fourth- and fifth-tier cities, high-income, middle-class and bottom-tier cities, are also parallel worlds,” Resident 1 later told me....
...And it was so high yesterday that really high chirping noise, it really kind of shows how bad things got. Katie MartinYeah, it goes all Mariah Carey at the end, Marc FilippinoIt really does....
...“When I finished school, I got a scholarship to go to university and my grandparents asked, ‘What do you want to do?’ And I said, ‘Well, I want to be a waitress.’...
...Most employers worry about high staff turnover, but Amazon has been positively encouraging it....
...The barista makes good coffee and has time to talk because she has a sophisticated espresso machine (not just a kettle)....
...He was educated at Morehouse College in Atlanta, the historically black institution where Martin Luther King Jr earned his undergraduate degree, and the Columbia University business school....
...; how he cycles to work, teaches social studies once a week at a high school in an immigrant neighbourhood of The Hague and, finally, has no noticeable political beliefs....
...The shares listed on Tokyo’s Mothers market for start-ups — a board that lists 334 companies and whose benchmark index hit all-time highs earlier this year....
...They built hospitals and schools down there. And that’s how they defeated the Americans, with this network of tunnels....
...Alice is a popular teenager who vanishes from school....
...At Blue Mountain School, a shop in east London, there is a waiting list for garments by weaver Amy Revier, which can take a year to make. Time is, of course, of the essence here....
...school....
...The 2017 survey by UBS revealed that 35 per cent of high net worth individuals were active in the art and collectible markets....
...A high proportion of sharp fine grit will make almost any decent soil fit for alpines....
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