Hints and tips:
...The Varna gold medallist Fumi Kaneko set the bar chasteningly high, partnered by an elegant and attentive William Bracewell....
...“When I first got off the bus, and saw the sky without bars and screens, I became dizzy.”...
...The outgoing security minister Omer Bar-Lev described the changes as “unhinged”, and argued they would damage the police force’s operational capacities....
...But not the only one: its co-owner (and co-founder of Fresh cosmetics) Lev Glazman, who oversaw design, has gone to town on the bespoke materials, fabrics and finishes....
...Before becoming caught up in the impeachment scandal, he was regarded in Ukraine as a businessman of moderate prominence — the owner of a car dealership and the Buddha Bar, a Kyiv club....
...Lev Parnas worked closely with the US president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in his efforts to pursue investigations in Ukraine against the former US vice-president, Joe Biden....
...It was arranged with the help of Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas — two businessmen with Ukraine ties now living in Miami....
...Before their arrests, Mr Fruman, who owned a bar in Odessa called Mafia Rave, and Lev Parnas became close associates of Mr Giuliani — both hiring him to further their business ventures and serving him in...
...“I think we originally envisioned a nice, kind of casual social meet ’n’ greet in a bar,” Mr Buttigieg told his fans, who had each made a small donation to attend the fundraiser....
...Anthony Dowell’s 1987 production, which stuck closely to the 1895 version by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, had greater textual purity but was blighted by its busy staging and fussy Yolanda Sonnabend designs...
...Now, if we are living in a period of secular stagnation, this could be seen as an attempt to lower the bar to make up for lackluster capital investment....
...Mr Dobrev stressed that acceptance of the lev was not universal: his luck ran out at a beachside bar. “They said there was too much uncertainty and that they might go back to the drachma next week.”...
...Palestinian officials and activists in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement hope that Mr Netanyahu’s swearing-in last week of a new hard-right government will give new momentum to their push to bar...
...“I can’t speak for all residents of Pskov, but those people with links to the military understand that the threat of war exists,” says Lev Shlosberg, a local lawmaker....
...Toulouse-Lautrec’s life is almost too well-known and Hollywoodised; in a sense he mythologised it all himself, the nightclubs, the bars, the brothels, the absinthe, the chanteuses, the demimondaines, the...
...On the Forbes list of billionaires, Mr Ofer ranks number 182, with an estimated net worth of $6.5bn. Fellow Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev relocated to London in 2007....
...Mr Putin needed to win an election in 2012, so he played what is known as the “Russia as a besieged fortress” card, according to pollster Lev Gudkov, head of the Levada Centre....
...The Ofer family The Ofers control Israel Corp, whose shareholdings include the Zim shipping company and chip-maker TowerJazz....
...Lev Leviev, who made his fortune in the diamond business and controls the Africa-Israel Group....
...The voters may not wish to understand the intricacies of the Sainte-Laguë, Bader-Ofer and D’Hondt methods (oh, please D’Hondt)....
...The production is in Russian with English surtitles, and is directed by the company’s artistic director, Lev Dodin....
...According to Prof Ofer Bar-Yosef of Harvard University, spinning thread from flax was a critical invention for early humans: “They might have used this fibre to create parts of clothing, ropes or baskets...
...Lev Dassin, acting US attorney for the southern district of New York, said the investigation was continuing and “the filing of these charges does not end the matter”....
...Mr Lev knows of women who have stopped jogging in sports clothes for fear of being harassed....
...Then again, the nearby town is set to evolve into part of the brave new Europe, its bars becoming brasseries decked out with German lager and potted palms....
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