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...Smart reads Crisis management Billionaire Leonard Blavatnik enlisted PR firm Hill+Knowlton Strategies to help navigate the press following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
...Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting will have 58 works in total, mostly for sale (prices £150,000-£1.5m)....
...Wallace interviewed many of the players involved, including former CIA chief Leon Panetta, William McRaven, the former head of the US Special Operations Command, who planned the raid, and Hillary Clinton...
...Leonard Green & Partners, a Los Angeles-based buyout group, paid £2.4bn including debt in 2017 to buy CPA Global from Cinven, a UK-based private equity firm....
...“Republicans are holding four lottery tickets, and all of them are winners,” said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Fox....
...On another rail hangs the rather more minimalist costumes from Christopher Wheeldon’s 2018 production of Corybantic Games – a new ballet dedicated to the late composer Leonard Bernstein....
...Speaking on CNN, Leon Panetta, defence secretary during the Obama administration, said the departure raised serious alarm bells....
...Work often got in the way of pleasure: “Dear Leonard, You must be a fiend....
...It gives the songs a gravity they were not intended to bear, a set of poignantly lively indie anthems that bear the imprint of obvious influences — Leonard has a yowl to rival the Kings of Leon’s Caleb Followill...
...Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness ; Maggie O’Farrell’s This Must Be the Place; Rose Tremain’s The Gustav Sonata ; Kit de Waal’s My Name is Leon . Phone on or off? Never off....
...He sounds far more excited, however, by the inclusion of works on paper by the Belgian Léon Spilliaert — “an autodidact, quite unknown” — whose alienated seascapes and night scenes reflect a Symbolist style...
...As an added draw, three out of the six apartments have been designed by interior designers Rose Uniacke, David Collins Studio and Peter Leonard and Co....
...This year it was Mastery by George Leonard....
...When it comes to the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, Leon Trotsky’s line is apt....
...The mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey sang with sly sensuality, dynamic sensitivity too, and the baritone Andrew Garland scored points with operatic grandeur....
...Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham joined US, European and Arab envoys working on building confidence to allow a deal to emerge between the military-backed government and Mr Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood...
...The announcement by Mr Obama of a new Pentagon chief to replace Leon Panetta could come as early as Monday, administration officials indicated. Mr Obama returned from a holiday in Hawaii on Sunday....
...On top of finding leaders for State and the CIA, Mr Obama will also have to replace Leon Panetta, who has let it be known he will also step down from Defense early in the second term....
...“I’m sure Iran is very supportive of sequestration,” said Lindsey Graham, Republican senator for South Carolina....
...Mr Hagel, a former Republican senator for Nebraska, has emerged as the frontrunner to replace Leon Panetta at the Pentagon in the second term of the Obama administration....
...Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, said he had been told by Leon Panetta, the defence secretary, that the Pentagon was readying 800,000 lay-off notices to send out early in the new...
...Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator, said he had been told by Leon Panetta, the defence secretary, the Pentagon was readying 800,000 lay-off notices to send out early in the new year....
...The 2013 line-up includes Leonard Cohen and Sting. www.montreuxjazzfestival.com Reading and Leeds Festivals, August 23-25, UK Two festivals taking place simultaneously in Reading and Leeds....
...Leonard Downie, former editor of The Washington Post and now professor of journalism at Arizona State University, called the Obama administration the “most militant” since Richard Nixon’s on leaks....
...Leon Panetta, US defence secretary, said in a television interview in January that Dr Afridi had played a vital role in locating bin Laden’s hideout....
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