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...Before that was Richard Nixon’s heavy defeat of George McGovern in 1972 and Lyndon Johnson’s crushing of Barry Goldwater in 1964. Such sweeps no longer occur....
...At French luxury ski resort Courchevel, watchmaker Richard Mille will offer clients special one-on-one clinics with French skiing champion Alexis Pinturault, Olympic skier and snowboarder Ester Ledecká or...
...But the concertos by Melinda Wagner and Richard Wernick, Shulamit Ran’s Symphony, and Roberto Sierra’s new Ficciones could in no way even approach this task....
...More than 50 per cent of the country’s reserves are yet to be tapped and Oslo would continue to encourage companies to drill for them, said Kjell-Borge Freiberg, who resigned on Wednesday and has been replaced...
...We are, on average, best at getting oil out with the lowest emissions,” said Kjell-Borge Freiberg, Norway’s oil minister....
...balancing sculptures (“Spirit Matter”, 2013), Borges’ curatorial notes, which talk about “infinity” and “a beautiful fire”, are unfathomable....
...His 1990 trip with fellow explorer Borge Ousland was the first successful unsupported expedition to the North Pole and took 58 days....
...In decades past, it has failed to give prizes to towering literary figures including Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges and James Joyce....
...“Nobody is going to restructure debt with a government [based] on the fraudulent constituent assembly,” opposition leader Julio Borges said....
...“First, they encourage people to buy diesel cars and then, whoops, they discover it wasn’t environmentally friendly after all,” Bea Berit Borge wrote on the Facebook page of Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet...
...This provides great opportunities for cooperation,” said Borge Brende, Norway’s foreign minister....
...Borge Brende, Norway’s foreign minister, said: “I am happy that today in Beijing we can mark a full normalisation of our political and diplomatic relations with China....
...On Tuesday, Julio Borges, a seasoned opposition lawmaker, said the MUD is preparing several laws, including an amnesty to political prisoners as well as granting property rights to beneficiaries of a government...
...Psychologists Bernhard Borges, Dan Goldstein, Andreas Ortmann and Gerd Gigerenzer found they could construct a market-beating portfolio of stocks by stopping people on street corners, showing them a list...
...Borge Brende, Norway’s foreign minister, said last year: “Our arrangement . . . is that we have to implement all the EU directives. We are not around the table when these are discussed in Brussels.”...
...By the end, I feel as if I have been watching a film in a foreign language or reading a short story by Borges....
...Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Virginia Woolf were all inspired by Browne’s baroque, gorgeously Latinate prose....
...Mia Wasikowska, James Fox are among those lost in a plot that needed Kafka or Borges to enhance and elucidate it....
...“Relations with China are unfortunately [still] at freezing point,” Norway’s new foreign minister, Børge Brende, said last month....
...“Borges is half-blind. Never forget that.”...
...From Prof Richard T. Harrison. Sir, There is an earlier precedent to Jorge Luis Borges’ map of the empire cited by Harry Eyres (“Maps of the human art”, The Slow Lane, August 25)....
...You mean, I ask, people like Richard Hell?...
...I doubt, unless he is a Richard Branson, that he knows that yet – and if he does he is probably already practising as an entrepreneur....
...In addition to Burroughs, Franz Kafka, JG Ballard and Jorge Luis Borges figure strongly, almost overshadowing Nelson’s art world influences, who include Joseph Beuys and Robert Rauschenberg, and the American...
...It was called Looking for Richard, and at the screening I attended a disgruntled wag, upon exiting, muttered, “I guess he’s still looking”....
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