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An old convent, the former home of Donizetti and an eco-wellness urban resort are among the Eternal City’s most exciting places to stay this season
...Ghislaine Maxwell: An appeals court will hear oral arguments in Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her December 2021 conviction and 20-year prison sentence for helping the disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein...
...For Shelley Maxwell’s finale, Arcadia, the whole cast are convulsed by galumphing jumps and sulky kicks before encircling our heroine — now fully assimilated?...
...Polly Russell is the head of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library and a food historian...
...Also in London, the specialists Rudy Capildeo and Tim Maxwell have been brought in from Charles Russell Speechlys to City law firm Wedlake Bell to lead a dedicated art and luxury practice....
...In one, Anna Maxwell Martin and Chris O’Dowd bring great warmth, humour and affection to the piece....
...Video of the day Simon Russell Beale performs from Shakespeare’s The Tempest The stage actor performs the “Ye Elves” speech, in which the aged Prospero vows to relinquish his magic....
...(FT) Video of the day I wandered lonely as a cloud (in lockdown), with Simon Russell Beale The actor performs William Wordsworth’s most famous poem, which takes on new meaning amid the coronavirus crisis...
...Up first will be Sheila Atim and Ivanno Jeremiah, joined next by Peter Capaldi and Zoë Wanamaker, then Omari Douglas and Russell Tovey and finally Anna Maxwell Martin and Chris O’Dowd....
...He also plays Firs in Chekhov’s masterpiece The Cherry Orchard in September.June 21-September 4, theatreroyalwindsor.co.uk Bach & SonsBridge Theatre, LondonThe peerless Simon Russell Beale plays composer...
...Alec Russell FT Weekend editor I have read more enduring books this year than in any single year I can recall and yet one easily stands out: The Passenger....
...(Politico) Podcast of the day Losing control of AI FT innovation editor John Thornhill discusses how to make artificial intelligence safe for humans with Stuart Russell, professor of computer science...
...It was about a philosophical seagull who wanted to travel further and faster than the drab flight to and from the fishing boats, and it was illustrated with spectacular photographs of seagulls by Russell...
...Maxwell Anderson also contributed...
...Many Tesla bulls, including everyone's favourite YouTuber Galileo Russell, saw Tesla's $235m acquisition of Maxwell Technologies — a company developing a new dry electrode for electric batteries — as a sign...
...As art lawyers prove increasingly in demand, two specialists from Boodle Hatfield — Tim Maxwell and Rudy Capildeo — have decamped to Charles Russell Speechlys....
...Russell Bolam’s new all-female version of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play (adapted by Glyn Maxwell) is set in a convent: the convent, in fact, where the heroine Roxane ends her days....
...Kate Fleetwood is adroit at being icy as Goneril, and Anna Maxwell Martin as second daughter Regan plays the calculating vamp from her very first lines....
...While Maxwell’s deal-studded career brought high drama, that “was certainly behind the scenes” and the family was unaware of much of it, says his daughter Graham Russell, who survives him along with her...
...The library is the brainchild of Russell Napier, the market historian and investment strategist, and is funded by many of the so-called “financial mafia” in the Scottish capital....
...“We have been instructed to prosecute the lawsuit,” said attorney Maxwell Blecher. He said co-owner Donald Sterling would not be signing off on the deal to sell....
...William Maxwell’s Time Will Darken It, Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. What is the last thing you read that made you laugh out loud?...
...“The idea that these are loans for the poorest, most vulnerable section of society is wrong and it stigmatises borrowers,” said Russell Hamblin-Boone from the Consumer Finance Association, one of the industry...
...Ruby Hughes, soprano, was soloist in extracts from Peter Maxwell Davies’s wild and wacky score for Ken Russell’s film The Devils....
...By the end of the 1980s, Polly Peck International had embarked on an acquisition spree, buying household names such as Russell Hobbs, the kitchen goods business and the Del Monte fresh fruit business....
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