Hints and tips:
...Hugo Nathan, co-founder of art advisers Beaumont Nathan, said: “Anyone who went this year will want to go back next year.”...
...But when we’d ask her about her politics she’d just start a sort of rhetorical diatribe that went right over our heads....
...Goldman Sachs believes Chinese oil demand dropped by 500,000 b/d last week — a huge number....
...When I was a little boy, you know, you’d be a minute in before you even heard the first verse.”...
...I was in Addis Ababa in 1968, when I was 23, but I didn’t get to stay as long as I’d have liked....
...I’d love to see coal miners in West Virginia being paid what they are now to make those. As Swamp Notes readers will see, I’m desperately searching for some silver linings to the current crisis....
...A Republican won the governor’s race in Virginia....
...“I procrastinated writing the high-drama bits a lot, so I’d try to start them in a way that didn’t feel horrible.”...
...The city is represented in the House by Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who is a non-voting delegate. It has no senators....
...The director of the DEA, Timothy Shea, said 150 of his agents had been deployed and provided 11 mobile response teams....
...I’m with Jerry Seinfeld here — I’m not sure I’d want to be in a foxhole with these folks....
...So Hurricane Hugo, which battered Montserrat in September 1989, was a half-expected catastrophe....
...He is hoping for success in North Carolina, helped by Mr Clyburn, and in Virginia. He may also do well in Alabama, which has a large black electorate....
...During the breaks, these fit-looking young people served their fellow delegates the delicious “functional protein muffins” and non-alcoholic “Bloody Marys” that clubs now try to feed their players....
...Heaven and Hell of a less chemical nature are surveyed by Bart D Ehrman in his history of notions of the afterlife (Oneworld RRP£20/Simon & Schuster RRP$28, April)....
...It was dubbed Rubinomics and marked the end of the party that Franklin D Roosevelt had created in the 1930s....
...I thought I was the reason for it,” Asqar told the FT by telephone from her home in Virginia....
...But now, “I’d prefer a president who doesn’t kill us”....
...Altogether the 30 companies have 147 antibiotics in their R&D pipeline. The third report was rather different....
...I cleaned the toilets and I cleaned the club, which held me in very good stead when a manager came to me, because I’d done their job. I’d served behind the bar. I cooked the food. I did the reception....
...“The constitution is extremely vague about the process for selecting delegates and approving the reform, leaving Maduro with a large degree of leeway to make up the rules as he goes,” said Risa Grais-Targow...
...But one of the things I found striking from this conference, Miranda, was the attitude of the delegates and the membership towards the Labour leader....
...“I even beat him in Virginia, where he spent so much time and money. Now his bosses are desperate and angry!”...
...“I’d have a strong military for our defence, not for offensive action. We need to stop kowtowing to Israel and stop doing their bidding.”...
...a delegate in the California primary....
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