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...Elizabeth Watts, touching the heart as Aspasia in the opera’s darkest aria, and Soraya Mafi’s Ismene vie with each other for the highest top notes....
...The German protesters that once demanded the site’s closure have decamped, and the last watts were produced three years ago....
...The golden age for life-enhancing innovation, argued the economist Robert Gordon, was the period 1920-1970....
...Its board is stuffed with corporate luminaries including ex-Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy, former Saatchi & Saatchi boss Robert Senior and William Currie Group founder Bill Currie....
...In the Selby garden, even those urban New York icons, Andy Warhol and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, have had shows linking them to ways in which they responded to flowers or landscape....
...Charlie Watts, the Stones drummer who died this week, layered in the samba beat for a truly Latin-jazz rhythm in the style of Kenny Clarke on “A Night in Tunisia”. Judd Kinne Singapore...
...One good read RIP to Charlie Watts, whose drumming was an example to investors: he kept it simple and focused on what he was good at. Listen to him kill it on Some Girls, and be happy....
...Charlie Watts dies at 80 The “rock” of the Rolling Stones has died....
...My English teacher, Mrs Richards, made much of the modest accoutrements of the bedsit in Larkin’s poem “Mr Bleaney”: “Bed, upright chair, sixty-watt bulb” — the leanest of companions, an eight-syllable home...
...A pint-sized Cornishman who was as impulsive and impassioned as Roget was methodical and mild-mannered, in his first year at the institute he asked the engineer James Watt to build him an apparatus for breathing...
...Additional reporting by Attracta Mooney and Robert Smith...
...According to Robert Burns (above), what “gang aft agley”? Testudo is the Latin name for which Ancient Roman military formation?...
...Western New England University Antonio FatasInsead George EvansProfessor of Economics, University of Oregon, and part-time Professor, University of St Andrews David CobhamProfessor of Economics, Heriot-Watt...
...Richard Watts, leader of Islington council, says the local authority is adjusting its schemes in response to feedback from residents. But he also argues that he has the support of voters....
...Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold “Skip” Wilkins of the Radio Research Station suggested a better use for radio beams: spotting incoming bombers when the beams reflected off them....
...It was Charlotte Watts, an Oscar-nominated set decorator, who first opened up this niche to Foster....
...programme, admits that he frequently faces questions from people who point out that the technology has been touted since the 1950s as the answer to the world’s energy needs, without delivering a single watt...
...at Heriot-Watt University and Cabs chair....
...Latham & Watkins has appointed New York partner Lisa Watts as vice-chair of the firm....
...Robert Jenrick, communities secretary, is likely to announce at least £1bn for English councils on Saturday, on top of £1.6bn already committed, to help plug the gap caused by increased spending and lower...
...“Some of these things are what we’ve been arguing for for years,” says Suzanne Fitzpatrick, professor of housing and social policy at Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University....
...You have to decide who wins and who loses,” said Robert Hayton, head of UK business rates at Altus....
...They aren’t just happening in Newark or Watts, but in Boise, Colorado and Europe. That could turn BLM into not just a racial justice movement, but a new kind of labour movement....
...Robert Moskow, analyst at Credit Suisse, estimated the company may need to spend as much as $300m in added labour costs in the event of a significant outbreak at its plants....
...Luke Philpott Joint CEO, DeVono Cresa Robert Leigh Joint CEO, DeVono Cresa Richard Morris CEO, IWG (UK) Jerry Schurder Head of Business Rates, Gerald Eve LLP Tim Rodber CEO, The Instant Group...
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