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...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...“I wanted to know everything – where she [the V&A curator] worked, the colour of bricks, everything in the street.”...
...Electric power blackouts in North America—such as the one that shut down the northeast of the United States in 2003—and in Europe and Russia, generate worries about the reliability of electricity supply...
...The Saddleback campus, opened in 1992, has the eighth-largest congregation of any church in the United States – expanding from its first gathering of 200 in a high school gym in Easter 1980 to a current...
...of how community worship was disrupted by doctrinal dispute, zealotry, state interference and finally gentrification....
...have had to offer huge rebates to move their lumbering Escalades and Expeditions....
...Lincoln has the Navigator and Aviator, for example, which are essentially fancy Ford Expeditions and Explorers....
...“I did an expedition,” says the chief executive. “It convinced me we didn’t need it.”...
...Carl Ford, the former head of the department's intelligence bureau, said last month that Mr Bolton was a “quintessential kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy”....
...Chrysler's Sebring was top, followed by the Ford Mustang and the Volkswagen Beetle....
...“In the United States, twenty US 20 years ago, the entry-level drinker drank six-packs of Old Milwaukee and Papst’s,” says Richard Sands, chief executive of Constellation Brands, the US beverage company...
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