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...He has worked for law firms including King & Spalding and Gibson Dunn, and held a number of roles at the justice department, including serving as a top aide to then deputy attorney-general Rod Rosenstein...
...The topic is also a political lightning rod in Australia after nuclear power was in effect outlawed in 1998 at a time of significant public opposition to uranium mining and nuclear testing....
...The Tory loss in the 2021 Chesham and Amersham by-election — where development issues became a local lightning rod — still looms large in conversations about planning reform....
...He mixes those fine-art influences with such aesthetic marvels as George Herriman’s Krazy Kat cartoon strip, hot-rod cars, cloud topiary, sushi, pâtisserie and aberrant tree roots....
...Theresa May’s lead Brexit negotiator, Sir Oliver Robbins, was a lightning rod for ire at compromises in her withdrawal agreement — it was easy for internal party foes and Faragist outriders alike to paint...
...Jaber was “a lightning rod for a much broader critique of the system.” Behind the scenes, the UN’s climate chief Simon Stiell is working to reform the COP process to make it more transparent....
...A renowned scientist, he also invented bifocals and the lightning rod, and charted the Gulf Stream weather system. Oh, and his face is on the $100 bill. “A true renaissance man,” Douglas says....
...From Dixon’s steel rods to the hand-turned ash and fruitwood of the baroque design, the exhibition presents three visions of a symbol of dynastic authority and explores the material and cultural advances...
...In a twist on Street’s “begging bowl” analogy, he concluded: “It’s not the fish we’re after — it’s fishing rods.”...
...option fees and rents from wind farms out of the equation, the King, who highlighted the cost of living crisis during his first Christmas speech as monarch, has headed off what could have become a lightning rod...
...Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses, by Aarathi Prasad, William Collins £20, 368 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The core of the ritual — oath (originally the “tria precepta”, the three promises); anointing, investiture with ring, sword, sceptre, rod and crown; enthronement — does actually descend from the coronation...
...It is found also in Rod Stewart’s commitment to his model railway, Morris dancing or those people who insist on feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square....
...Unbelievers should know; a rod will be laid across their backs. Switching from scripture to comic-strip balloon, he vows to his whooping congregation: “I am your justice . . . I am your retribution.”...
...Here she is talking to Pete & Dud, Morecambe & Wise, and Kenneth Williams about comedy; to Tom Baker about economics; and to Rod Hull about anarchy...
...From the left, his daughter Queen Elizabeth II, his mother Queen Mary, and his widow Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother June 2 1953: Elizabeth II wears St Edward’s Crown and carries the sceptre and rod during...
...No one knows whether lightning will strike a second time with Break Point but there is at least now a rod to catch it if it does....
...In January, two months after the IPO, Rod Copes, Rivian’s chief operating officer, announced he was leaving the company just as it was due to ramp up production after manufacturing about 1,000 vehicles in...
...George ParkerIt’s interesting that when William Hague was foreign secretary, he came up with exactly the same approach, actually, that we need to make all our diplomats basically salespeople for Britain....
...William Stout is one of the best design and architectural book stores in the country, and I have been visiting for decades....
...The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate)Eleven years after The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng is back with a fictionalised account of William Somerset Maugham’s visit to Penang in 1921....
...“Google has used its vertically integrated position to operate its ad tech services in a way that has, over time, led to a less competitive ad tech industry,” said ACCC chair Rod Sims....
...“It’s very possible this weekend could turn out to be one of the busiest for leisure journeys for many years,” said Rod Dennis, of the RAC....
...More recently, the baton of managing the family’s hotels and holiday cottages has been passed on to their daughter-in-law, Laura Burlington, wife of their son, William....
...“Spare the rod. Spoil the child” is written on the bowl of the spoon in permanent marker....
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