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...Garton Ash writes: Many voters simply got fed up with the corrupt, petty, backward-looking, obscurantist rule of [PiS], the party led by the 74-year-old Jarosław Kaczyński, who is a kind of one-man walking...
...Ethan WuThere’s a great piece by the journalist and academic, Steven Vogel, called Japan’s Ambivalent Pursuit of Shareholder Capitalism....
...His petty criminality eventually lands him in a juvenile detention centre where he meets a trainer who will set him on the path to sporting greatness....
...And then came George Dyer, a petty thief, loosely associated with the Kray twins, with whom Bacon spent the 1960s....
...Removing a capacity to respond as Steven Mnuchin has sought to is wrong.”...
...Yet this is a petty cavil. Lampedusa is a beautiful novel, lyrical and wise. Reading it made me feel both melancholy and uplifted, as working on the biography did those many years ago....
...Democratic House majority leader Steny Hoyer called Mr Trump’s action a “small, petty act” and said it was “beneath any president”....
...He was new to Washington and “the places I come from we don’t deal with that kind of petty nonsense”....
...Had Steven Runciman not actually lived, someone, perhaps Evelyn Waugh, would have invented him....
...Inside, everyone was in black, including Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. One would have looked out of place if one hadn’t worn black....
...Brown Harris Stevens has the listing....
...Stevens’ voice was so pure, so clear; the music was so rich, so detailed. Unforgettable....
...It was marked by petty vandalism and pranks in the White House, the wittiest being outgoing Clinton staff’s removal of the “W” key from computer keyboards....
...In emails mentioned in Friday’s complaint, Mr Wildstein and Ms Kelly discuss their stance towards Steven Fulop, mayor of Jersey City, another Democrat who had earned their wrath....
...His tale of opportunism and audacity was glamorised by the Steven Spielberg film, Catch Me if You Can. Leonardo DiCaprio starred as the master forger....
...(“Hi Simon, Steven Spielberg here. I loved your column! Can we make it into a movie?”) My colleagues Tim Harford and Lucy Kellaway have recently addressed the problem of email....
...Then Steven Spielberg famously said that it would be impossible to stage the scene for a film. With a crowd of up to 800,000 this time rather than 1.8m, Mr Spielberg might still struggle....
...“It’s a shame that they are resorting to such petty abuses in what should be a serious and responsible investigation of this fatal attack,” he said....
...A scene in which Helena secretly feeds her birthday cake to a dog encapsulates the petty frustrations of life lived in too close quarters with relatives who care too much....
...Mr Stevens, the ambassador “is a symbol,” he said. “He is representing US policy, which is to destroy the Middle Eastern people.”...
...Young men with bushy beards, knee-length trousers, sandals and camouflage T-shirts question them at checkpoints, drive at high speeds and sometimes engage in petty crime....
...It counterbalances a well-meaning 15-year-old boy, Des – “the nicest character I’ve ever created” – against Lionel Asbo, his thuggish 21-year-old uncle and guardian, a petty criminal....
...With the much-loathed police beaten back from the streets, and with the army apparently reluctant to fire on protesters, opponents accuse the regime of turning to the baltagiya, petty criminals on the state...
...Yet Petty does not intend to acquire a Leibovitz....
...With its liberal use of swear words and portrayal of drug-taking and petty criminality, it was criticised by some for the way it painted the city....
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