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...“I watched the opening ceremony and was really moved when the Olympic rings rose up together,” said Zai Ji’er, a Beijing resident in her mid-40s. “I have really been looking forward to the Games....
...“I’m very emotional right now. I’m stunned”, one texted Trade Secrets. “Can hardly believe it! . . . Time to rejoice”, said another....
...“I’m not moving. I’m not gonna be quiet!” His voice was growing hoarse. Tears ran down his face....
...I'm addicted. Drugs got me feeling tough I don't listen. I've been in my bag baby. Uh, Virgil Louis V on my back, baby. Living fast, dying slow that's the catch, baby....
...“I’m getting to my studio,” replies Rodney Graham when I ask him how he’s negotiating lockdown in Vancouver....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Now I know you are keen to address rumours about the disappearance of Prince Edward V and his brother. I’m glad you asked me that, Emily. I loved those boys like my own....
...It gives you a good idea of dreams v reality ratio.” I pause here to reread that last line: “It gives you a good idea of dreams v reality ratio.”...
...some catch-up M&A in 2021, we would expect a lower amount in 2020-21 versus our previous forecasts....
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letter in repsonse to this article: Beauty visible to God from every angle / From John H V Gilbert, Vancouver, BC, Canada...
...Edward Luce responds Rana, I'm so behind on the Google antitrust issues and that I had to Google it on, er, Google....
...Sorrell to friends: “I’m not. Otherwise I wouldn’t be in this position.”...
...“Er, Emma’s a friend,” he squirms, “but I don’t like crockery which needs subediting.”...
...It was then that Mr Kapoor vowed: “I’m going to make sure that when I leave the company, my successor does not have to go through the same miserable feeling.”...
...“I am not an economic . . . er . . . um . . . I’m not somebody that’s going to put a figure in a crystal ball of what exactly the deficit is going to be at the end of the year,” he said....
...V: Good plan. Let’s shake on it. CB: (they shake) Er . . . t know how this happened, but . . . V: They always warned me to count my fingers after shaking hands with a private equity guy....
...I said: “George, I’m never going to build an Aleutian Baidarka. I’m 50 and live in sight of the Thames. Surely . . . ” “No,” he replied, “I’m out of kayaks. Can’t bear to look at them....
...His business record has hardly been more, er, sterling....
...What: “I’m a dancer. I love to dance!” Er, sorry wrong ad (oh, come on, surely you remember the 2004 Chanel No 5 film?)....
...As other groups of students get on and little packs exit, you wonder when it went out of fashion for children in London, Los Angeles, Sydney and Vancouver to make their own way to school, to a sporting field...
...“I’m against nothing,” says Hardy. “To be against this or that is very unmodern. These days you can do whatever you want, you can marry whatever you want with whatever you want, whoever you want....
...“I’m very glad not to be there.”...
...Even though I’m of the print species, I, for one, am glad....
...“I don’t think I’m cynical,” says Hislop, “I’m sceptical.”...
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