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...A former F-16 pilot who earned the call sign “Swamp Thing” after he ejected into the Florida Everglades when his plane was struck by lightning takes over as Joe Biden’s chief military adviser on Sunday....
...Take the issue of fluorinated gas (F-gases)....
...That rises to $80,000 or less for pick-up trucks like the Ford F-150 Lightning and other larger vehicles....
...And Credit Suisse says: [F]or a company that has been typically outperforming expectations and delivering upgrades, “in line” is likely to be seen as a mild disappointment....
...The postwar years brought their own brand of glamour: Peter Sellers, John and Yoko, Romy Schneider, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Michael Caine, Robert Evans, Rock Hudson and Doris Day....
...by Jacqueline Kennedy the day her husband John F Kennedy was assassinated in 1963....
...We have come a long way from the furore surrounding Kenneth Tynan’s first use of the F-word on the BBC in 1965....
...“Get out you f***ng Jew,” they had shouted. Foster-Ogg was stunned when Miliband lost. “Everyone was in tears.” But canvassing had felt transactional. “It felt weird....
...Always the bridesmaid Schneider Electric’s £3.3bn bid approach to Invensys has reinforced the assumption that Smiths Group, another big, diversified engineer, is up for grabs....
...Levine as both conductor and educator, Tanglewood currently relies heavily on former “fellows” (as its young scholars are known) – an illustrious and diverse bunch that includes such senior stalwarts as Lorin...
...delivery of 20 F-16 jets to Egypt, a step that looks to Egyptians like a vote of confidence in Morsy....
...“John F....
...The vice-presidential pick can sometimes matter a great deal though, as it did in 1960 when John F. Kennedy chose as his running-mate Lyndon B. Johnson, who delivered Texas in the process....
...Mahler’s arrangement of Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Minor Op.95 was the logical conclusion....
...Not every ale ages gracefully, though: it needs to have a high alcohol content, typically nine to 13 per cent, and to be stored and drunk at a cellar temperature of 55°F (12.7°C)....
...“I’m going to have alcohol,” I say to Lorin Stein, who has arrived spry as spritz, and is seemingly unaffected by the sweltering heat outside. “Shall we get a bottle?”...
...All of which segues to why writing is f***ed.”...
...I’d like them to realise that they’re responsible for f***ing the world up. Don’t people realise that they eat meat, that they pollute? How do you remove yourself from what you do?” he says....
...These shareholders range down from Threadneedle Asset Management, which holds an 8.64 per cent stake, to F&C Asset Management, Mondrian Investment Partners, Legal & General, Schroder, M&G, Standard Life...
...Shaghalian Timur F. Galen H.C. Liu Devesh P. Shah...
...Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World, John F Kennedy Center, Washington DC, until March 15. www.kennedy-center.org...
...Lorin Maazel had a dubious success 45 years ago when he made his Met debut conducting Don Giovanni and Rosenkavalier . Nasty wags thought his return might be better never than late. We were wrong....
...Bülent Eczacibaşi, Chairman, Eczacibaşi Group John Elkann, Vice Chairman, Fiat Jukka Härmälä, Chief Executive Officer, Stora Enso Zsolt Hernádi, Chairman and CEO, MOL Franz Humer, Chairman & CEO F....
...She has spent her life analysing nearly every great writer in world literature - among them F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S....
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