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...Wildlife sightings are common, including Arctic hares, caribou and musk ox. Camps include the shores of a glacial lake, and the edge of the Russell Glacier....
...Dan McCrumI was chatting to a hedge fund manager, Australian guy called John Hampton....
...At Kingston, you must cross the bridge to continue to Bushy Park and Hampton Court Palace....
...“They’re the ones who can’t afford to go out to their house in the Hamptons,” explains one person who worked for him....
...The latter, played with flighty self-absorption by Lisa O’Hare, is more concerned about her boyfriend, an estate agent who seems at once devious and oafish in James Hillier’s portrayal....
...At Lancing College, I acted in The Merchant of Venice opposite Tim Rice (Gratiano to his Lorenzo) and in A Man for All Seasons, as Sir Thomas More, to David Hare’s Thomas Cromwell and Christopher Hampton...
...I’d take him back to Africa to the source of the Nile, which is something he spent his life fascinated by....
...Daniel Kehlmann’s play, translated from the German by Christopher Hampton, is a chic, sardonic little comedy about male ego, jealousy and the value of art....
...Smaller spaces within Ropac’s London gallery will be dedicated to works by Joseph Beuys, including his “Backrest for a fine-limbed person (hare-type) of the 20th century AD” (1972-82, priced at €2.5m) and...
...Egyptian Museum, Tahrir Square, Meret Basha, Qasr an Nile, Cairo 11516 (sca-egypt.org). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1,000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028 (+1212-535-7710; metmuseum.org)....
...in Lake Geneva, which can cost as much as $18,000 to $20,000 per sq ft in desirable waterfront areas, is still less expensive than prime second-home areas such as Lake Tahoe in California and New York’s Hamptons...
...As Silicon Valley usurps Wall Street as the seat of US capitalism, the argument goes, LA is replacing the Hamptons as the playground of its billionaires....
...Twyford itself is highly sought-after as it is only 35 minutes by train into London Paddington, while other villages popular with buyers include Littlewick Green, Knowl Hill and Hare Hatch....
...The sign at the excavation site said, “Aramean Quarter” but we hadn’t flown our cameras and gear hundreds of miles up the Nile to Elephantine Island in search of wandering Arameans....
...(Last decade West Nile virus received double the research funding of Lyme, even though Lyme was seven times more common.)...
...Nouveaux riche traders, pumped with cheap money, fan out to fill their pre-destined roles, creating employment on mansions in the Cotswolds and the Hamptons....
...Winter on the Nile, by Anthony Sattin, Hutchinson RRP£20 In November 1849, both Gustave Flaubert and Florence Nightingale happened to take the same cruise down the Nile and this book tells us what they...
...T he office of Alexis Turner, not far from Hampton Court Palace, looks like a long-standing exhibition you might find in a natural history museum. The smell is musty....
...other festivals that populate New York’s year: the 150,000-strong St Patrick’s Day parade, first held in the 1760s and now the biggest in the world, Puerto Rican Day with around 80,000 marchers, even the Hare...
...But the fiasco down the Nile did wonders for Egyptology....
...Tel: +44 (0)1276 453336; www.updowncourt.com On sale through Savills (tel: +44 (0)20 7409 8881; www.savils.com) and Hamptons (tel: +44 (0)1483 572864; www.hamptons..co.uk)...
...In the small caps, White Nile came back into focus as investor enthusiasm for resource stocks pushed the Sudan-focused explorer 12.9 per cent higher to 140p....
...David Hare’s plays about the Iraq war and the railway system, Stuff Happens and The Permanent Way, were admired for their subject matter, not their acting....
...The playwright Christopher Hampton once said that you could not make a living in the theatre, but you could make a killing....
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