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...Who Knight Frank Contemporary house, Sierra Alta Way, Los Angeles, $18.5m Where Off the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. LAX international airport is about 25 minutes by car....
...Who Knight Frank, Douglas Elliman Estate, Ponchatoula, Louisiana, $3.495m Where Ponchatoula is a small city 50 miles north-west of New Orleans....
...But former foreign secretary Douglas Hurd’s famous dictum that Britain “punched above its weight” was treacherously seductive....
...During previous airlift operations in countries such as Sierra Leone and Libya, international forces parked warships off the coast and shuttled evacuees to them by helicopter....
...Robert Mitchum lured from sleepy east California back to his dark past by Kirk Douglas via Jane Greer, playing one of the most fatal of femmes fatales....
...Tune in to Jordan Schneider’s ChinaEconTalk podcast to catch Douglas Fuller, associate professor of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong discuss how China can take over tech...
...Battlestar Suburbia , by Chris McCrudden, Farrago Books, RRP£8.99 McCrudden proves himself a worthy successor to Douglas Adams with this genuinely funny piece of comic SF....
...Sebastian Payne is the FT’s political leader writer Of the other living foreign secretaries, Douglas Hurd (1989-1995) and John Major (July-October 1989) were unavailable for interview and Philip Hammond...
...The first speaker at the opening plenary session was Mohamed Sidibay, former child soldier from Sierra Leone, who sang a marching song, terrifying in its seemingly innocuous exhortation to serve the country...
...He is the son of a midwife from Sierra Leone and a businessman from Wiltshire, and has been MP for Braintree, Essex, since 2015....
...Two potential candidates, Jim Murphy and Douglas Alexander, lost their seats on Thursday night. Here are some of the favourite contenders with odds from William Hill....
...In Oregon, Douglas travelled 6,000 miles; he was pursued by hostile tribes, and lost a cargo of precious seed when his canoe capsized....
...Why Interstate 80 sweeps up big mountainous bends into the Sierra Nevada, offering a sense of escape before arriving at your wilderness cabin....
...Rarely has an index – here, the work of Douglas Matthews, our greatest living indexer – been more useful. As one gets into the book, the Greenery begins to branch out in fascinatingly different ways....
...Impact , by Douglas Preston, Macmillan RRP£12.99 The setup seems earthbound enough: a search for a missing meteorite....
...A paean to multilateralism by Douglas Alexander, a close ally of the prime minister, seemed to carry a similar message....
...What would he have made of 10 years of interventionist state-building in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, East Timor, Macedonia, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq?...
...The phrase is Douglas Hurd’s, pronounced when he was foreign secretary in the early 1990s, about the demands of human rights campaigners, journalists and opposition politicians that western states must intervene...
...The wall studs – old-growth Douglas fir harvested more than a century ago – were remilled and joined to create a dramatic system of open shelves suspended from the kitchen’s 11ft ceiling....
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