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...The Silver Strand in the village of Dugort, where I swim each morning, is looked over by the sharp pointed summit of Slievemore, one of three mountains....
...India, now the world’s second-largest mobile market, is particularly important for Google as it is shut out of China and faces the prospect of greater difficulty in operating in Hong Kong following the passage...
...So began a quest to find that place, which presumably must be somewhere in Africa, and the search for it is the loose thread that holds the strands of this expansive, ambitious book together....
...Baryshnikov moved on to reading “Walcott from St Lucia, and Seamus Heaney in Ireland, or Louise Glück, in the States, or Mark Strand”....
...“Warburg said he would find him an original dollar — a silver thaler issued by the Holy Roman Empire.”...
...The customary gift for her first communion is a silver bracelet with her name engraved on it, and more jewellery arrives for her quinceañera, a rite-of-passage party on her 15th birthday....
...Before that, they were almost certainly known to Arab traders, who criss-crossed the Indian Ocean, selling spices and silver. But no one ever stayed....
...The silver dome went up in 1984, a few years after National Geographic declared the Skylight Inn “the barbecue capital of the world”....
...The daguerreotype is seductive, a silver-blue surface, metallic yet somehow liquid, in which the butterfly is most perfectly trapped between air and water. This is wonderful stuff....
...A banking flotilla offers safe passage By Ben White When Blackstone Group filed papers for its initial public offering, two words were conspicuously missing from the prospectus: Goldman Sachs....
...Glen Hutchins – co-founder of Silver Lake Partners, which owns about 10 per cent of Nasdaq’s shares, and a member of its board, said Bob Greifeld, chief executive, has the strong support of shareholders,...
...Opposite stands the pared-down, bleakly beautiful self-portrait “Lonesome Man”, made in pure silver: luminous, asymmetrical, one leg poised as if in a dance....
...The show, he says, would have shown how the regime in Tehran, during the war with Iraq, had “brilliantly managed to pull all these strands of national identity together....
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