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...Kevin McCarthy, former US Speaker (Lunch with the FT, January 13), came across as driven by ambition and tribalism....
...McCarthy said he was confident he would survive....
...McCarthy has also rejected invitations from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to visit Kyiv....
...Nadeem Meghji, head of real estate in the Americas, will succeed Caplan alongside Kathleen McCarthy. Wanda Austin has been nominated to join the Apple board....
...Additional reporting by Christopher Miller in Kyiv, Henry Foy in Brussels, Roman Olearchyk in Kyiv and Guy Chazan in Berlin...
...Somewhere, near the bottom, is an imperial Roman commercial outpost. If this unsentimental place has a hero, it is Dick Whittington, four times mayor of London....
...“Just a few weeks ago, our delegation visited the US and had a meeting with Mr McCarthy,” Arakhamia said....
...The images of the two men come as some Republican lawmakers, including House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, have questioned the US’s ability to sustain long-term assistance to Ukraine....
...Biden said after the vote that he expected US aid to Ukraine to continue, and pushed back against McCarthy’s blank-cheque assertion....
...Biden said he would be surprised if Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy “even has a majority of . . . colleagues who say they’re not going to fund the legitimate defensive needs of Ukraine”....
...I might once have thought that was a bit much, but I’ve just finished rereading Robert Harris’ trilogy of novels about Cicero, who lived through the tumultuous death of the Roman republic....
...Cormac McCarthy used his MacArthur “genius grant” to go to the American south-west to research Blood Meridian. Gillian Flynn consulted extensively with a small-town cop and a lawyer to write Gone Girl....
...The 1964 title fight in which Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston was the kind boxing lives for — a hotshot young pretender, the odds spun upside down, a new era in six rounds....
...When Chelsea FC cashiered Frank Lampard as coach this week, the lean Swabian and hipster’s darling became, by my count, the 15th man to lead the team since Roman Abramovich juiced it with petrodollars in...
...The actress broke through last year in the punkish German indie movie System Crasher — her Roman candle fury there serving a different purpose....
...“Sonny made Douglas write SLATFATFish by locking him in a hotel room and only letting him out for room service meals, while Sonny watched videos next door.”...
...He was previously the chief executive of Chelsea when the Premier League side was sold to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich....
...For a longer day out, you can visit Villa Oplontis, one of the most beautiful of the ancient Roman villas, where the frescoes are remarkable....
...(FT) . . . but Roman roads predict prosperity Danish economists demonstrate that the density of ancient Roman roads at a given point in Europe strongly correlates with present-day wealth....
...Since the podcast’s launch in 2014 there have been examinations of the legend of Frances Farmer, the rise of MGM Studios, the McCarthy witch-hunts and, most recently, Bela Lugosi....
...She assembled a formidable “family values” grass roots movement, backed by her Roman Catholic church and other denominations already incensed by the 1973 Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision legalising abortion...
...Ali was in at least six such fights, three against Joe Frazier, two versus Sonny Liston and the Rumble in the Jungle when he dethroned George Foreman in Kinshasa....
...Jim McCarthy, chief executive of Poundland, insists this is not the case....
...Nadine McCarthy Kahane is founder and chief executive of the online retailer Stone & Strand, where Sabine G is stocked and sales are rising....
...The Romans have left Britain and the Saxons have arrived, built settlements, and fought wars of conquest and survival....
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