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...A former teen tennis star, Duncan is injured and becomes a rich, successful coach instead....
...Born in Córdoba, southern Spain, in 1942, Francisco Peña Pérez was the seventh of nine children and grew up in poverty, sharing a rambling old house (and one lavatory) with 10 other families....
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...In the V&A’s latest annual review he also referred to talks with Ghana around the V&A collection of Asante court regalia, including gold ornaments, rings and badges, which entered the collection following...
...The house has won prizes at the V&A Illustration Awards, as well as being recognised in the book trade for its bindings, production and indexing....
...Former Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith, one of the five sanctioned MPs, said it was “astonishing” that China had been invited given its “huge record of human rights abuses”....
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) and me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts, suggestions and comments. We’ll be back again next Monday. Happy reading!...
...Duncan Forbes, the V&A’s director of photography, was appointed two years ago....
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...BachurewiczEdward Lipinsky Foundation, University of Warsaw Andreas MaschkeUniversity of Leeds Ines HeckUniversity of Greenwich José Pérez-MontielUniversity of the Balearic Islands Sue KonzelmannBirkbeck...
...his first large command, over three battalions of the 101st Airborne Division, based in Fort Campbell, Kentucky — and moved to the Pentagon during Jimmy Carter’s administration as an adviser to Charles Duncan...
...César Pérez Ruiz, chief investment officer at Pictet Wealth Management, prefers a symbol: a mirror image of a square root....
...That is our snap reaction in economic or financial crises and why we cling to our repertoire of charts of V, U or L-shapes of recovery, among many....
...“There is a similar one in the V&A; it’s now worth in excess of £5,000.”...
...“The chances of a full V-shaped recovery in services activity this year still look slim,” he said....
...LACMA is undertaking the conservation of a recently acquired “Pietá” by Melchor Pérez Holguín (c1660-c1732), the most important Bolivian painter of the Spanish colonial period....
...For a pair of would-be bohemian swingers, Joél Pérez’s Bob and Jennifer Damiano’s Carol seem rather stiff....
...She noted that the fall in the PMI employment index was “particularly worrying” because it “provides further support to our view that a perfect V-shaped recovery is extremely unlikely”....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Duncan visited the following day and we drove up together a few days later....
...Duncan and I visited friends a few weekends ago, but found ourselves running late and without time to select a thoughtful gift....
...Carme Forcadell sits in dusky half-light in booth 29, her matching magenta V-neck sweater and rhinestone earrings the only splashes of colour in the rows of otherwise empty visitation cubicles at the Mas...
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