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...“A friend and mentor of mine, Mary Lasker, used to ask, ‘What is missing and what is needed?’ This is the basis for my philanthropy....
...The Vixen by Francine Prose, HarperCollins £20/$25.99, 336 pages Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy by Anne Sebba, W&N £20, 304 pages/St Martin’s Press $28.99, 304 pages Rebecca Abrams is the author of...
...Robert Oppenheimer, and the opera-oratorio The Gospel according to the Other Mary....
...Dickens’ 17-year-old sister-in-law Mary died in his arms there, subsequently providing the model for ailing Dickens heroines such as The Old Curiosity Shop’s Little Nell. … J.P....
...Ain’t nutt’n iambic bout dis....
...“Gimme Shelter”, featuring a needless guest appearance from the R&B singer Mary J. Blige, was one of the stumbles....
...His elucidation of works such as the St Matthew Passion makes you want to listen to the music afresh....
...goes the cry if a council or hospital refuses to provide some service that is available somewhere else. Well, life’s a postcode lottery....
...Jung’s mother was diagnosed with cancer at a hospital that had received donations from the charity; she is now cancer-free. “That is when you realise, wow, this is not a job,” Jung says....
...The monastery was a hospital for sufferers from ergotism, “St Anthony’s fire”, a disease caused by rye poisoning that led to convulsions, gangrene and often death....
...J ohn Wykeham, for services to the National Portrait Gallery....
...Katherine, 29, was a young, attractive blonde with a cheerful disposition, working as a cardiac nurse at St Anthony’s Catholic hospital in Florida....
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