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...English Premier League club Brentford has hired Rothschild to explore a full or partial sale by British owner Matthew Benham....
...There is no whodunnit concerning the death of Cock Robin. A sparrow confessed to committing the crime “with [his] bow and arrow”, according to an old nursery rhyme....
...Hasbro said Wizards of the Coast’s revenue has more than doubled, surpassing $1bn in 2021, since Cocks took over the division....
...Think of Matthew Perry and Elizabeth Hurley in the startlingly terrible 2002 film, Serving Sara, in which people are hoodwinked, seduced, shot....
...But his offbeat numbers, backed by a lively jazzy score co-composed by Cale and Matthew Dean Marsh, wittily convey the strangeness of his adolescent world....
...Casino’s music begins and climaxes with Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Add The Irishman’s redeployment of Peter Gabriel’s “Passion” from The Last Temptation of Christ....
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...Matthew Hedges, a 31-year old PhD candidate at Durham university, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for spying....
...At the age of 22 Matthew De Abaitua worked for six months as amanuensis to the writer Will Self....
...Similarly, the good citizens of Boston thought they could censor linguistic bawdy by turning cocks into roosters and cockroaches into roaches. Ladies’ legs became limbs....
...“I’m not aware of any other broadband cock-ups on the scale of the NBN on the global stage,” says Ian Martin, analyst at New Street Research....
...Once, he watched a victorious cock robin in a cage feeding another cock robin whom he had defeated and crippled in battle. He declined to credit this “kindness” to an “adoption of female behaviour”....
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...(TPM) Campaign commentary The myth of Teflon Trump (Matthew Yglesias, Vox) Is America really in an anti-establishment rage?...
...Belgian artist Jan De Cock will curate a Wunderkammer presentation for Office Baroque — which runs two spaces in Brussels — featuring artists such as Tyson Reeder and Leigh Ledare....
...And in the opening manoeuvres of the final the champ was slow to get into his rhythm while his opponent was strutting like a turkey cock....
...And is the whole business as big a cock-up as it looks?...
...Any other idea is cock-and-bull....
...The Skinners have a splendidly obscure ceremony of “cocks and caps”....
...Communications with up-country Kenya were difficult in those days and, in any case, a cock-up was made with the code book at Government House, Nairobi. Eventually, Philip took the phone call....
...“Today’s cock-of-the-walk,” I overheard a man say in the Victor Trumper Stand, “is tomorrow’s feather duster”....
...One of the rats has just insulted the cock pheasant by calling him a “failed peripheral”....
...As Matthews goes, he looks at the legal pad Sullivan used to take notes. “It was completely blank.”...
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