Hints and tips:
...Traditionally, the quality of writing in games hasn’t been seen as the point — design and gameplay mattered more....
...Cheer them on from the sidelines if you don’t fancy taking a freezing festive plunge yourself....
...I would say it doesn’t, but commissioning editors apparently don’t agree....
...I don’t feel anything.” Forward Roger Hunt thought the World Cup was “too big”; Alf Ramsey, the manager, felt “a little flat”....
...And this administration won’t,” he added. The situation now looks bleak. Virtually nobody believes Machado will be allowed to run....
...“We could have seen better performance [from Mexico] if it wasn’t for some of the micro issues,” says Ben Ramsey, head of emerging markets sovereign strategy at JPMorgan, in an oblique reference to President...
...“If Machado ultimately can’t run, she’ll have to work with the rest of the opposition on finding a realistic alternative,” said Geoff Ramsey, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington....
...“Jim and Dave know what they don’t know.”...
...Impressively, it felt less like a dramatic culmination than the climax of decades of approval-seeking, self-sabotage and emotional turmoil that we didn’t see....
...“Machado is an outspoken voice, which isn’t easy in Venezuela’s male-dominated politics,” said Geoff Ramsey, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington....
...“Maduro didn’t like him from the outset,” said Mariano de Alba, senior advocacy adviser at the International Crisis Group. “He was very close to Chávez but then started to lose relevance.”...
...Some notable examples this week include Santi Cazorla returning to Oviedo while dressed as Gandalf the Grey, and Aaron Ramsey’s Barbie-themed hello to Burnley fans....
...Well, at least things didn’t get quite this bad....
...A third long run ending in plucky defeat won’t satisfy anyone....
...“The car industry is utterly reliant on people buying cars they don’t need with money they don’t have,” he says....
...It’s a dark and spooky time of year, perfect for some dark and spooky reading — and books don’t come much darker or spookier than those by Garth Marenghi....
...“However, the challenge for Petro will be to do so in a way that doesn’t normalise a dictatorship,” he added....
...The fact that she used to be Shan’s fiancée doesn’t help, either....
...But if it isn’t, which for a lot of people isn’t, they haven’t got the money to save anyway. This is just about managing their money, so it’s an outlet for them....
...What those people don’t realise is: we don’t get opportunities.”...
...“My big question mark is: will the automakers who produce vehicles that don’t qualify drop prices to at least partially offset [the absence of a tax credit]?” he asked....
...Ramsey says that football executives use all the right politically correct language, but almost never hire black people. Ferdinand says he doesn’t want to see teams taking the knee. He wants action....
...“All of this is urgent if he doesn’t want to inherit a house on fire, after throwing so many Molotov cocktails at it [during the election campaign],” he told the Financial Times....
...“The protocol might have solved 75-80 but I’m fearful that if we start again, we wouldn’t get as far as we have now.”...
...If we don’t, we risk becoming just a formality — part of the landscape.”...
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