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...“We’ve been frantically trying to find solutions on the ground because there isn’t anything from government,” said Fredericks....
...janan.ganesh@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Leaders are not mere politicians and this is why / From Patrick J Allen, River Forest, IL, US...
...Prepared by Malcolm J Merriweather, the Summer for the City Chorus was superb....
...It also raises questions around due diligence and whether more scrutiny should be applied to relatively unknown investors contributing large sums of cash....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Herodotus might well have avoided Plato’s wrath had he simply recounted what he ate for breakfast, the names of the horses that had carried his kit, or how long it had taken to swim a river previously unknown...
...into a car by unknown men in Cambodia and has not been seen since....
...— it was known simply as Cisleithania after the Leitha river that marked the boundary between the empire’s two halves....
...A person who knows him says the visit was typical of the style of the heir to the Safra banking dynasty — financiers who have long shunned personal publicity....
...Their creators tout them as natural heirs to the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, a next generation of the skyscrapers that gave form to New York’s singular ambition....
...Rocks on a sunlit bank glow pink and violet against a dark silhouette cast by the Roman arch across the river in “The Shadow of Alcántara Bridge, Toledo”....
...river so that a new pond glittered below the bedroom windows....
...Biographies of note in the early part of the year include Richard J Evans’s Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little Brown, February) — the first one of the late historian and polymath....
...The tendency was held in check for a while by Frederick Crews’ 1963 spoof of academic literary criticism, The Pooh Perplex, which introduced a collection of invented Owl-like professors pontificating on...
...He took a job in the family business department of Cathedral Consulting Group, the firm co-founded by the late Philip J Clements....
...Schulenburg’s heirs dutifully took possession of the paintings — and promptly sold them. Among the willing buyers was Frederick the Great; others were sold at auction in London....
...or the flooding of rivers....
...Game of Thrones; The Trouble with Europe, by Roger Bootle; The End of the World Running Club , by Adrian J Walker; and The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman. What is your worst holiday memory?...
...The River Café is the centre of a strong Italophile culture that we’ve celebrated here since the days of the Grand Tour and EM Forster’s A Room with a View....
...On the opposite side of the river stands another set of benches, their cast-iron ends formed into the shape of swans (although with the very strange modification of lions’ feet)....
...Aside from a scattering of chain restaurants, and despite considerable attempts at regeneration in the past, this peninsula jutting out of the river Thames still feels largely desolate....
...It lies between the Caspian Sea and the Amu Darya river – the Oxus of antiquity. We land in the extraordinary capital, Ashgabat....
...It was now only a step to being the favoured architect of Frederick, Prince of Wales, the royal miscreant and heir dragged from Germany to England, who set up court at Kew Green in 1731....
...Within days of the disaster he was in the country forming an aid group, J/P HRO, which would take a lead role in the relief effort....
...It takes the gentle coaxing of a new arrival on the river, the garrulous Polly, to draw him back into the world of verbal communication in an affecting story of everyday heroics....
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