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...“RM Williams are very, very nice boots,” he says, before adding with a chuckle: “I’m wearing some really old loafers.” We’ve both ordered the “Ice Well Wedge” salad with bacon and gorgonzola....
...The road then takes you past the great Coptic monasteries of the Wadi Natrun, then on to Alexandria....
...“So I’m here to say, I’m not part of the ugly.”...
...When Daniel Webster was offered the vice-presidency by William Henry Harrison, he reportedly said: “I do not propose to be buried until I’m dead.”...
...Her hesitance went beyond self-doubt: “I’m not a very superstitious person but I was superstitious about writing a book about an 11-year-old boy when my own son wasn’t past the age of 11 . . ....
...I search in vain for Paris,” wrote the poet Charles Valette) and Dinocrates’ ancient Alexandria....
...Listed on the outside walls of library of exile are the names of other destroyed libraries, from Antioch to Alexandria to Timbuktu, a 2,000-year history of book-burning....
...No, I’m not going to just say yes.”...
...Serena’s sportswear, June: For her first major grand slam since having her baby, Serena Williams wore a sleek Nike catsuit....
...The other obvious example of someone who’s cutting an entirely new figure on the global stage is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who I’m seeing this week for an upcoming Lunch with the FT)....
...One reason is the rising prominence of self-described democratic socialists such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mr Williams’ fellow committee member, which has put a spotlight on critics who were once outside...
...I’m as much in the dark as anybody. But I suspect they’re premature....
...Thank you, and I’m going to do better.’”...
...Today I am working on a book about Saint Catherine of Alexandria; tomorrow it could be William Burroughs.” The new small shop in Curzon Street is, admits Ed Maggs, “only a temporary solution”....
...Virginia’s most Democratic zones are Fairfax County, Prince William County, Arlington and Alexandria – all within spitting distance of the Potomac River that divides the state from the national capital....
...You were born in Alexandria and spent part of your childhood in Eritrea and part in Cairo. What drew you to London?...
...James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds professor of law at Duke Law School....
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