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...I’d also be remiss to not note our aforementioned chief American, Peter Spiegel, whose intellect and handsomeness knows no bounds. (Author note: He does read this, right?)...
...He nods at me approvingly, which feels like Christmas....
...candidate like RFK Jr or Cornel West....
...Ferdinand Marcos Jr . . . in the Philippines....
...If we’d figured things out a little bit better, the result would have been different....
...Some trees are so thick with lichen that, Shrubsole notes in his book, they sometimes resemble Christmas trees hung with tinsel....
...Imagine if children sent Father Christmas a “communication” with their gift demands each year....
...Lucy FisherI’m buying Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock....
...BDL: Basically, I thought that Larry Summers had a 20 per cent chance of being right [about inflation] through Christmas of last year . . ....
...She went on cruise over Christmas. Lilah Raptopoulos What does Yvonne think it is? Imogen West-KnightsShe thinks it’s something industrial....
...I hadn’t mentioned Christmas either, though every wreath in the online company store says “Christmas” in the description....
...The Queen’s Christmas Message has been televised every year in Britain since 1957, except for 1969 when the monarch appeared to feel she’d had enough publicity due to a royal documentary....
...Which it is: “It feels a bit like the art world’s staff Christmas party,” says Engelen....
...We had help this week from Joanna Kao, George Drake Jr., Peter Barber and Gavin Kallmann. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz....
...You’d expect inflation to feed through selectively. And there is every reason to think we are going to see new bottlenecks. I read a story today that there is a bottleneck in Christmas decorations....
...GH: There’s a scene in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, when Scrooge asks, [something like] “are these the shadows of things that are or might be?”....
...Donald Trump Jr saying, “If you’re gonna be the zero and not the hero, we’re coming for you, and we’re going to have a good time doing it.”...
...None would disagree with what Larry Summers says here. In light of that, I attach little importance to the widespread division of Democratic economists between “centrist” and “leftist”....
...A look back at 2020 Christmas for many parts of the world this year will be unlike any other in living memory....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...Larry Lamb plays Mick Shipman in which BBC sitcom, whose Christmas special was Britain’s most watched programme of Christmas Day 2019? Which Lily provided Britain’s Christmas number one single of 1968?...
...Other Hamilton alumni include Brian D’Arcy James, Josh Andrés Rivera and Ariana DeBose, who plays the key role of Anita....
...Rumble in Riyadh British boxer Anthony Joshua and Mexican Andy Ruiz Jr face each other for the second time this year on Saturday....
...“The ethos of the gallery, certainly in those days, was like . . . they’d have Christmas dinners [for all the artists], you felt you were part of something.”...
...“It’s been a lot of work, but if I had to describe it, I’d say it’s been joyous. The kids are just adorable. It’s going to be something we really miss.”...
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