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...Sunak owns four properties: a family home and apartment in Kensington, a large manor house in Yorkshire with heated swimming pool, and an apartment in Santa Monica, California....
...“I’m not going to get the same foot traffic as I would sandwiched between Nino Mier and Karma on Santa Monica Boulevard, but I enjoy the benefit of collectors making an effort to visit.”...
...Downing Street officials were told in 1998 that the Monica Lewinsky affair presented Tony Blair with a “major opportunity” to reaffirm Britain’s prestige during his first visit to the US after becoming prime...
...The case alleged a “pervasive ‘frat boy’ workplace culture” at the Santa Monica-based company....
...delves into the seminal musical feud of their youth: the battle between R&B singers Brandy and Monica. The precise mix of silly and serious we need at the end of 2020. Team Brandy or Monica?...
...At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, Monica Richardson discovered that a lifetime of working, paying taxes and saving had failed to provide her with the comfort and care she needed towards the...
...Survivors share their stories with the FT’s Robert Wright in this harrowing report....
...Monica Mac, the Phams’ solicitor, said the Home Office made it clear that if the DNA test was not submitted, the application by Mr Pham’s Vietnamese wife to remain in the UK would be refused....
...One woman left destitute and without right to work Monica Mac, the solicitor who represented the Phams, described the case as “just plain bullying” and noted that the British consulate in Hanoi had already...
...Christie’s had a lower-valued, but no less interesting, painting by Wright....
...before Ms Wright and Ms Douglas complained through their lawyer....
...“The Trump transition is easily the least prepared in living memory,” said Tom Wright, a foreign policy expert at the Brookings think-tank....
...And then the president presented it with a gift — his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky, the White House intern, which led to his impeachment for lying under oath — but not, never forget, his conviction....
...Penn was married to Madonna in the 1980s and had two children with his second wife, the actress Robin Wright....
...Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard (+1323-469 1181; www.cinespia.org). Intelligentsia Coffee, www.intelligentsiacoffee.com. LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, www.laphil.com....
...“With so many dollars chasing too little inventory, the market keeps churning,” says Zackary Wright of Christie’s....
...Today’s market value of Glenn’s own award-winning, Ray Kappe-designed prefab home, built in Santa Monica in 2006, is approximately $3m....
...Among the worst are plans from 1963 to build a gigantic earth-filled “causeway” in the Pacific that would have linked Santa Monica with Malibu (and ruined the view of the ocean for coastal dwellers, not...
...But at the moment I’m writing Little Mermaid for [the director] Joe Wright, so I’ve got my head very much in the blue planet world of the underworld.”...
...Many see it as the leaving present of the Royal Ballet’s director, Monica Mason, who has been at the helm for nine years and will step down in 2012....
...It is, as Monica Mason, director of the Royal Ballet, remarked afterwards, “Ballet coming of age”....
...Robin Wright Penn suffers from a trophy marriage, an obsession with her past – the devil makes flashbacks for idling minds – and bouts of binge somnambulism....
...The architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said that if the world were tipped on its side “everything loose will land in Los Angeles”....
...I never read Beowulf and I have never read Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. So I step up to Sarah Gavron’s film version unbiased and ignorant....
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