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...Rory FH Smith looks at the phenomenon to find out what it is about the Mattel toys that still brings out the infant in us all....
...Clare Connor, managing director of women’s cricket for the England and Wales Cricket Board, said: “Our sport owes so much to its pioneers and Eileen was one of them.” tony.barber@ft.com...
...“They bring the world to Ireland and Ireland to the world,” says Skye Gyngell, who calls Rory O’Connell a dear friend....
...Mick Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, the train drivers’ union, called for the company to be banned from running any lines in future....
...Rory Collins, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Oxford and chief executive of UK Biobank, said: “We do not hold on to intellectual property for the use of data....
...“The Iraq fiasco was one of the earliest indications of Britain beginning to lose its touch for foreign affairs,” says Rory Stewart, a Conservative MP and a former official in Iraq after the invasion....
...Its three founders, Clare Lattin, Tom Hill and Rory McCoy, are evangelical about fermentation, and this month will open a dedicated “picklery”, which will sell fermented goods by the jar....
...It shows Phil Lynott and Rory Gallagher, two dead Irish rock stars, in the ecstasy of performance....
...“But if you’re coming up from County Clare as I first did and you walk up O’Connell Street, it has this enormous resonance.”...
...Here too, the bar, the few tables and the kitchen are in close proximity as, invariably, are its owners, Clare Lattin, Julian Biggs and Rory McCoy....
...Ducksoup is a partnership between Julian Biggs, Rory McCoy and Clare Lattin, a publicity manager whose mortgage secured the site and whose credit card financed the basic refurbishments....
...Rory Kinnear has for a little while now been known to theatre aficionados as the finest actor of his generation....
...As one small shareholder noted, the only man smiling is Dave Whelan, the JJB founder who cashed out long ago and recently picked up its sports clubs on the cheap....
...“The Budget helped to concentrate minds,” said Clare Whelan, a councillor from Lambeth. “It gives us a sense of purpose – reminds us what we are for. We come in and solve problems.”...
...Stewart Picador £8.99 FT Bookshop price: £7.19 Fixing Failed States By Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart OUP £13.99 FT Bookshop price: £11.19 Once we went abroad to build empires; now we go to build states...
...Other locals working in timber include sculptor Rory MacPhee, and furniture makers Christian O’Reilly, Nick Langan, Barry Mays and Scott Woyka....
...I have often joked about director Katie Mitchell’s fondness for dim lighting, but she strikes just the right note in the smaller Clare studio by eschewing stage lighting altogether....
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