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...On a September morning made soft by sfumature of mist and sunlight, I walk with Leone among the vines....
...Leone and Virginia have since brought their own impressions and aspirations to the running of the castello; Leone is moving on from his father’s orthodoxies in winemaking while Virginia has joined her mother...
...What to pack: Chic cotton sarongs by the truckload from Biasa, Indonesia’s homegrown resortwear brand; a wide-brimmed Janessa Leoné panama hat; scuba- and surf-friendly one-pieces from Matteau; an Almond...
...In Sierra Leone, protracted school closures led to a 16 per cent decline in re-enrolment once schools reopened after the 2014 Ebola outbreak....
...Hurricane Maria hit in 2017, killing an estimated 3,000. Then came earthquakes....
...He told his wife Maria, who survives him, that he would stop writing film scores when he was 40 in order to concentrate on what he called “absolute music”, his compositions for the concert hall....
...Peacekeeper in Africa: Learning from UN Interventions in Other People’s Wars Alan Doss, Lynne Rienner, RRP$55 Alan Doss led, or helped to lead, UN peacekeeping missions in Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone...
...They were assembled in the late 1690s by Monsignor Leone Strozzi, the collector and connoisseur of hardstones....
...The officer allegedly confiscated her passport and advised her several times to take her daughter back to Sierra Leone. “I was crying and crying and crying,” Maria said....
...“Martin has lived in Sierra Leone and Stockholm, and travelled all over, so he’s international in scope and sources,” Rapaport says....
...“We would not do Kosovo or Sierra Leone today,” says Menzies Campbell, the former Liberal Democrat leader....
...to Sierra Leone....
...In a residential area of Moss Side, Rebecca, who moved from her native Sierra Leone to Britain 22 years ago, said she was concerned about splits in the community....
...Innovation in Social Responsibility Tie: Herbert Smith Freehills The Fair Deal for Sierra Leone programme....
...After an all night struggle, Italy’s navy brought under control an unmanned Sierra Leone-flagged livestock carrier drifting hazardously towards the rocky coast of Puglia with at least 400 migrants on board...
...Many of the selections, such as Ennio Morricone’s “Your Love” from Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, expressively sung by soprano Renée Fleming, microphone in hand, and Stelvio Cipriani’s Suite...
...That evening at Los Leones, a fine little palace-hotel, owner Manuel Górriz serves me an aged sirloin steak adorned with thin truffle slices bestowing a pungent aroma on the simply cooked meat....
...The longest process to choose a head of state in Italy’s postwar history as a republic was in 1971, when it took 23 rounds to elect Giovanni Leone....
...Maria Laura Avignolo is not a man, Der Biltung was not an East German newspaper, African countries were not declaring independence in the 1940s, and so on. Google makes these slips unnecessary....
...“We are talking about an amount of money created by organised crime from cocaine trafficking which is greater than national incomes,” says Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office...
...Marriott spends several months each year buying diamonds in Africa, and believes “home-cooked stones could rip the economies of Botswana, Sierra Leone, Angola to shreds....
...Manuel’s coat of arms appears on blue and white bowls alongside an “Ave Maria” inscription and a Buddhist lion, in one example. Artistic licence worked in other ways too....
...Facing the deserted auditorium, he points to an unmarked spot on the floor, right of centre, which Maria Callas established as her sovereign territory....
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