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...“And he would reply, “Oh no, I’d rather call you Miss Smith because we have a professional relationship.”...
...So Selin and her friend, um, Svetlana come up with this framework for, um . . . Svetlana actually comes up with it....
...I’d visit the Aswan dam, then sleep in Agatha Christie’s room in the Old Cataract hotel....
...Up on the roof terrace, meanwhile, is a lap pool, whose multi-chromatic tiles – inspired, again, by Ponti – were custom‑produced in Salerno....
...I’m sick of putting up with it, keeping quiet, and being afraid,” Ms Tikhanovskaya told the crowd....
...Similar, £553; matchesfashion.com The things I’m eyeing next are Diptyque Cerf Sapin candles....
...Monika Sprüth, his dealer, told me that in the weeks after the auction she’d instructed her staff to avoid speaking about it to journalists....
...When I’m reading. What book do you wish you’d written? Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. What is the best piece of advice a parent gave you? Don’t try to optimise....
...I think I’m closer to writers such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, Svetlana Alexievich and one of my heroes Toni Morrison.” Louis pauses, and has a rare bite of his dessert....
...I’m always looking for the answer: why doesn’t our suffering convert into freedom? Is it truly all in vain? 1989 I’m in Kabul. I don’t want to write about war any more. But here I am in a real war....
...You’d never know it. Her ear for American dialogue is flawless, her historical details spot on. The quality of the writing, too, is astonishing....
...Chartered Bank Global head of communications 37 Richard Beaven Lloyds Banking Insurance operations director 38 Jo Rzymowska Celebrity Cruises Managing director, UK & Ireland 39 Crawford Prentice M&...
...“If the gutters needed cleaning I would send my late wife up and I’d hold the ladder.”...
...“I’m considering moving to Portugal where relatives have found jobs and a stable life.”...
...“Things are a bit better, but I’m certainly poorer than I was two years ago,” said Lydia Rybakova, a pensioner....
...“She’d be ahead now, I’m sure, if she’d just shown up in all those races,” he tells me....
...I’m bored to death. It’s always the same thing.” I asked him, “Misha, what are you going to do then?” A boy alone in the city. It’s a scary thing for a mother....
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