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...That’s right, Kenny Smith shoved Shaquille O’Neal into a Christmas tree. Again. Don’t ask why it’s custom, who cares, just enjoy it. Or in the words of the NBA, “The fellas are in the holiday spirit.”...
...He loaded up on volatile airline and steel stocks, resulting in a white-knuckle ride, with poor years followed by great ones. But, as he told the March gathering in California, he had an iron stomach....
...“It’s either like Countryfile, where you’ve got some rare breed pigs and [people are] making artisan cheese, which is really nice but not exactly feeding the nation....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...We saw the biggest Spac deal on record, the most complex Spac deal to date and a wave of launches from some unexpected figures — shout-out to basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal and baseball legend Billy...
...The regional haze crisis spurred affected nations to draft the Asean Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution (AATHP) in 2002....
...In case you missed it, Andrew O’Hagan combines the true story of an obscure south Londoner who died aged 20 in the 80s with an investigation of the dark web, drugs and the fake ID industry....
...When asked about his role models, Itoje talks about Shaquille O’Neal, Magic Johnson, Muhammad Ali, and Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana....
...This was easier to accomplish after steel was adopted as the main construction material in the 1880s. Compared with cast iron, steel was lighter and more stable....
...The White House recently levied tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, and many saw the swift ruling on Broadcom in a similar light....
...There is a dearth of green alternatives to the fossil fuels used to make steel, cement or plastics, he adds....
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...O’Brien recounts the story with enormous verve....
...In 2006 Arcelor, a French, Belgian and Spanish group, was taken over in a €26.5bn by Indian rival Mittal Steel despite the opposition of the government....
...The concept of Scotland as a nation never faded, even when it was at its furthest from being a nation state....
...“There’s still a huge and unmet demand for higher steel consumption as the world outside the developed nations continue to urbanise and industrialise,” he says....
...But she did manage to send 3D files to a stainless steel printer in the UK who more usually makes aircraft parts....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Allegheny Technologies , the speciality metals producer, added 4.6 per cent to $33.25, while United States Steel rose 4.4 per cent to $21.61....
...”, and Joseph V Melillo, executive producer of Brooklyn Academy of Music, a major international programming centre in New York....
...Obama’s exemplar: from depressed steel town to diversified economy As host of the Group of 20 leading nations summit, the city of Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania will impress thousands of visiting diplomats...
...Even Americans have searched more for Ronaldo this year than for many of their own best athletes, such as Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and Shaquille O’Neal....
...Additional reporting by Sarah O’Connor...
...Talk of a potential merger for Wachovia has simmered since Stan O’Neal, Merrill Lynch’s former chief executive, made an unauthorised approach to the bank in October last year....
...So they put on satire to capture the spirit of the nation,” he said....
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