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...Yeats called her the betrayer of “all living hearts”; Shakespeare, a “strumpet”; Alexander Ross, “a deform’d soul”; Rupert Brooke, “a scold . . . shrill . . . gummy-eyed and impotent”....
...The Iliad tells the story of the war of Troy and of Achilles, the greatest fighter in the Greek army and the man with the shortest fuse....
...About 7mn barrels a day of crude oil and refined products flow through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait but the route has become vital for Russia to export to Asia with 4mn b/d heading south, according to Kpler...
...She’d go to a decent school, get unspectacular exam results and, if she chose not to be a nurse or a teacher, she’d do a secretarial course and get a decent job in an office....
...As founder of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Gardiner is not just the face of these ensembles, but their entire raison d’être....
...Here, designer Cho Myung Hee reimagines the ruins of Troy as a curving space, backed by a giant window, dominated by a swooping structure like a modernist bus shelter, and splashed with starry projections...
...He also insisted animation specialist Mark Gustafson be credited as his co-director. Another affable presence, Gustafson wryly notes he and del Toro would have plenty of time to build a relationship....
...Spain’s white-wine game is hitting new heights in the Canary Islands with Suertes del Marques’ Listan Blancos, a highly appetising type of liquid rock that, if I didn’t know better, I’d imagine had seeped...
...Ethan WuLeprechauns across the world were delighted on Friday as gold, the shiny metal we all love, hit an all-time high: $2,152.30 per troy ounce....
...“There’s no precedent in all of our history for such a rapid warming on such magnitude — we’d be taking the Earth, way, way out of its known ways of operating.”...
...In its first year, Stroll Garden has won the Best Curio Presentation prize at Design Miami and launched Jane Yang-D’Haene and Lily Clark....
...Sissinghurst called and Troy Scott Smith has returned. Back for a second stint as head gardener at the world-famous garden where he started his career 30 years earlier....
...“I’d joke back and say: ‘I don’t.’ ‘How do you do the washing-up?’ ‘I don’t.’” She laughs. “I’m being facetious, obviously. I do all of those things.” She stops herself. “Actually, there’s one....
...Gold traded as high as $1,974 a troy ounce and as low as $1,878....
...Missing, though, are Barker’s earlier, pre-Regeneration books; I’d love to see the likes of Union Street, the exploration of a working-class community of women, and Blow Your House Down given new life as...
...b/d, according to ING....
...He wrote a play called The Cure at Troy which was a plea to throw away tired, bigoted positions. It’s quoted by American presidents all the time....
...“The Women of Troy”, by Pat Barker, is published by Hamish Hamilton Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...I’m not sure what mix I’d mandate if I were in charge....
...And the clues might really work, given that they once helped unearth Troy....
...Gold rose 0.5 per cent to about $1,876 a troy ounce....
...Nobody thought they’d ever see it.”...
...Stereotypically masculine, he’d be the first to admit. Emphatically American....
...“The pace of buying has been incredible across the silver products, whereas you’d expect that strength in gold,” said Suki Cooper, an analyst at Standard Chartered in New York....
...Gold last traded at $1,986 a troy ounce....
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