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...The fretful bond between brother and sister resembles that of the doomed Maggie and Tom Tulliver of The Mill on the Floss, one of the many (perhaps too many) touchstones of the novel....
...Democrat Maggie Hassan held on to her New Hampshire Senate seat, denying Republicans one of their main pick-up opportunities....
...After a day on the beach, visitors can settle into sets from indie rockers Vetusta Morla and Anglo-Spanish electronic outfit Crystal Fighters, or get stuck into a good old-fashioned headbang to Franz Ferdinand...
...Birds ride the wind in spirals, dive to the waves, burrow into shelves in the cliff face or settle on rocky promontories....
...Thinking the “Sunday Buffet” I had to settle for would be some arrangement of leftovers, I arrived in the dining room disheartened....
...It enables people to come into the moment and settle. To gain clarity. The sound, the light, the materials engage all your senses....
...Forget a room of my own; I would happily settle for a bookcase....
...O’Connell’s accent settles down in his second-act duet with Colm Meaney’s unusually compassionate Big Daddy, but for much of the first act his Brick is little more than a brooding presence and a bunch of...
...Maggie Fick, the FT's West Africa correspondent, travelled to Nigeria's oil heartland to find out why....
...“From the complex multi-party negotiations that followed, we knew that the federal government of Nigeria would compensate Malabu to settle its claim on the block....
...The Johannesburg-listed company last year paid $1.1bn to settle a record fine — originally set at $5.2bn — for alleged violations of a law related to SIM card registration....
...MTN paid the government $1.7bn to settle the case last year and agreed to list its local operation on the Nigerian Stock Exchange as soon as possible — likely to be 2018 at the earliest....
...The allegations are plaguing MTN just months after the company was meant to have put its problems in Nigeria behind it by agreeing to pay a N330bn ($1.1bn) fine to settle allegations that it failed to disconnect...
...Even before the penalty was awarded by Chad’s High Court, the Exxon-led consortium had taken the case to the International Court of Arbitration in Paris, the forum both sides had agreed would settle disputes...
...The weekend provided some time for the dust to settle after last week’s seismic ruling by the UK High Court that Britain’s parliament must vote on Brexit....
...James Politi is the FT’s Rome bureau chief; Maggie Fick is west Africa correspondent. Photographs by Charlie Bibby and Malin Fezehai...
...Order a bottle of Bordeaux and settle in to observe the country’s elite as they lunch....
...Graves was one of the first expatriate artists to settle in Deià, but he was not the last....
..., planned to settle a £15m-plus debt to the company....
...Surely there are enough English tunes to choose from without having to settle for a French one! I’d have suggested the glorious melody in Bax’s “Tintagel”....
...The astronauts will settle into inflatable pods containing a bedroom, living room, office and food production unit where, says Lansdorp, they will grow vegetables, plants, algae and insects....
...We settle down for tea as if after an epic trek. We’ve walked perhaps half a mile....
...We know that after initial discomforts – cockroaches, strange food (Maggie Smith: “If I can’t pronounce it, I don’t want to eat it”) – everyone will settle down, learn wisdom and elegiacally unravel....
...And the question that hangs over Coward’s comedy – almost as provocative now as it was in 1933 – is whether they could ever really settle....
...When you find yourself in the comfort zone, that is time to get out of it – this is the philosophy of Maggie Miller, New York-based chief information officer at the Warner Music Group....
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