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...Rocky V (1990)....
...ILS, based in Reston, Virginia, uses the Proton launch vehicle, which is made by its parent Khrunichev, a Russian state-owned rocket maker....
...It has in fact been so hot that the MBA programme office has been providing free bottled water and sending out email warnings! I’ve decided to do something a bit different with this blog post....
...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...
...As their first bit of research, “we took the whole office there for a picnic,” Liu says with a conspiratorial giggle....
...Winston Churchill famously gave his blessing to the idea of a United States of Europe – as long, he said, as Britain remained aloof....
...*For an explanation on the political importance of a wobbly caramel pudding, see the box at the foot of this story. 12.04 Le Monde has put together a brilliant bit of kit....
...The “flyover states” are famous as places to pass through, as quickly as possible....
...Last year’s top box-office hit was The Dark Knight, based on graphic novelist Frank Miller’s penumbral re-imagining of Batman....
...Best of all, none of these things run foul of those United Nations sanctions imposed after last year’s nuclear test. Not that anyone seems to remember there are supposed to be sanctions on the North....
...The trade group estimates that physical piracy cost the industry $3.5bn last year, or about 15 per cent of worldwide box-office revenues....
...The results: 52 per cent of likely voters said they would check the box for John Edwards; while 46 per cent said they would plump for Mr Cheney....
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