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...February 22 to March 20; further information here The Retrofit, Deering Estate Theater Emmy-winning filmmaker Marlon Johnson, is presents a five-part multimedia and live-performance work that looks at...
...Additional reporting by Leila Abboud in Paris, Miles Johnson in Rome, Philip Georgiadis and John Burn-Murdoch in London and Eleni Varvitsioti in Athens...
...As David Olusoga writes Black and British (2016), the slave trade and Caribbean migration brought many to London, mostly to be servants — Samuel Johnson’s manservant Francis Barber was Jamaican....
...In the news Hopes rise for Covid-19 vaccine Johnson & Johnson announced a collaboration with the US government to invest $1bn in a potential vaccine that could be available early next year....
...“[China’s] GDP figure was below, but rather close to the market consensus forecast, causing an initial rebound in the equity market,” said Gerry Alfonso, director at Shenwan Hongyuan Securities....
...Prime minister Boris Johnson held talks with his counterpart in Dublin for the first time, but British and Irish governments said “significant gaps remain” between Mr Johnson and Leo Varadkar, despite some...
...Perhaps the most contentious outcome of the negotiations so far was the absence from last year’s Cannes of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, a film whose rich aesthetic was particularly well suited to the big screen...
...“Sitting, negotiating and negotiating and negotiating until we reach an agreement,” answers Alfonso Romo, Mr López Obrador’s strategy guru and prospective cabinet chief. “Good luck with that!”...
...Spanish foreign minister Alfonso Dastis says the government is “a little surprised” at the tone of commentary in the UK over Gibraltar....
...Boris Johnson has vowed to support Gibraltar after it emerged that Spain will in effect have a veto on any UK-EU trade deal after Brexit that affects the territory....
...Boris Johnson, foreign secretary, said Britain would “remain implacable and rocklike in our support for Gibraltar”....
...Luca Romano, Rome, Italy Boris Johnson has put his own interests before Britain’s “A politician who cannot even focus upon a single job can scarcely be expected to think clearly about the destiny of a...
...Yet his record as mayor, akin to London’s Boris Johnson but without the jokes, is respectable....
...and acts cool with her boyfriend Ron Livingstone, who in turn is charmed by Johnson’s young squeeze....
...“This is a cancer in our political system and it will continue to fester,” said Ben Johnson, director of the Immigration Policy Center....
...“One can’t be Robin Hood and at the same time earning a salary as the sheriff of Nottingham,” said Alfonso Alonso, parliamentary spokesman for the ruling PP in Spain’s parliament....
...Like the plot to a particularly breathless Mills & Boon novel, this year’s wedding of the Duchess of Alba to Alfonso Diez, a man 24 years her junior, came as a godsend to the country’s famously ravenous...
...Mr Saban said such laws were “archaic” but Alfonso de Angoitia, Televisa’s executive vice-president, said if the rules did not change it could sell the debentures to a US citizen....
...That will be huge for Univision,” said Alfonso de Angoitia, Televisa’s executive vice-president....
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