Hints and tips:
...For me, the apparently simple practice of paying attention to what I’d read the previous year had unexpected ripple effects....
...Last, I must mention the pool at one of my favourite hotels, La Colombe d’Or in Saint-Paul-de-Vence....
...I work out daily at the massive complex that is Georgetown University’s gym, Yates Field House....
...After I’d had enough of McAllister’s diktats, I dived into To Marry an English Lord (1989) by Gail MacColl and Carol McD Wallace, which partly inspired Fellowes’ previous series, Downton Abbey....
...“We’d all like to see the economy growing faster, but it’s worth saying it defied the sceptics last year, significantly outperformed expectations and did in fact grow . . . all the signs earlier this year...
...One was that we’d get killed. The other was that we might have to kill someone.”...
...He reminds me of another Cork-born legend, the Irish midfielder-turned-football pundit Roy Keane. Both share the same congenital disposition to seem utterly nonplussed....
...But she does, passing off The Last Front as her own, changing her name to Juniper Song at her publisher’s suggestion, until she finally has the life she’d always wanted — even if it happens to be the life...
...Nonetheless, if you’re Rishi Sunak, you know which one you’d rather have on your CV....
...So you’d expect us to be out of that position sometime around then.”...
...Roy Bailey, a former Trump 2020 campaign official now fundraising for DeSantis in Dallas, said the Florida governor had already lined up “a lot of major hitters” in the industry....
...Unlike some of the translations I’d read online, Helle’s translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic cladding....
...Roy has also been surprised by Nice’s economy....
...George Washington probably wouldn’t have been elected if he’d had to run for office. But Biden has to, and in the age of high-speed media to boot....
...“I’d like to take time to congratulate Ron DeSantis,” Trump told supporters on Sunday. “He ran a really good campaign. I will tell you, it’s not easy.”...
...I’d guess Pete’s age at 37, but he turns out to be 65. There’s a touch of Shane Warne about him....
...When Dubravka Ugrešić died at the age of 73 earlier this month, I felt a sharp stab of personal loss, though I’d only encountered her through her ingenious work....
...When asked in an interview with Robert Yates in 1996 what his family made of the images, Billingham said he’d wondered if they would perhaps force new insight, reveal themselves to themselves....
...We’d have moved from a situation where the government stands behind the banks and takes a stake when things go badly; to one where it is on the hook all the time to the tune of the deposits reinvested....
...If nobody could get in, they’d form again in another guise. As for the Garrick’s women problem, it may be that it has a man problem....
...He’d need us on board. The suggestion here is that holding company has a very small number of powerful votes....
...Craig D’allen regrets having to decline functions. “We’d like to be doing more covers than we are.”...
...For us viewers, at least, if not the warring Roys....
...Here, a Donald Judd chair, Roy Lichtenstein artwork and Le Corbusier lamp also reside....
...Roy Jenkins, a former UK finance minister and EU Commission president, once described inheritance tax as a “voluntary levy,” paid only by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the tax authorities...
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