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...department of an old-school publishing house (Gollancz) and then the Evening Standard gossip pages, finally making it in 1988 into the literary editor’s chair at that paper, recently vacated by his friend Valerie...
...Vodafone announced late on Wednesday that three of its longstanding non-executive directors — Valerie Gooding, Sir Crispin Davis and Dame Clara Furse — will not seek re-election at the group’s annual meeting...
...“English wine is thriving,” Carter added. Britons have acquired a taste for sparkling wine....
...He argues that President Carter was selfless in keeping a clear-eyed, arm’s-length relationship with the central bank....
...Like President Jimmy Carter getting attacked by a “killer rabbit” in 1979, Hollande has a genius for incarnating his country’s descent. The images mount up....
...Music by Shostakovich, Elliott Carter and Kurtág – four of his Signs, Games and Messages, drawing concentrated playing from Valérie Aimard – showed how each stripped down their musical material to essentials...
...Featuring interviews with Tony Blair, Jimmy Carter, Valerie Plame Wilson, Pervez Musharraf and Mikhail Gorbachev, the film opened in the UK last week....
...The unanswerable question is whether they will conquer Washington, as the Reagan team mostly did, or be eaten alive by it, the fate of the Carter crew....
...Separately on Friday Mr Obama named Valerie Jarrett, his longtime friend and supporter, as his White House senior advisor....
...“I have never heard Barack raise his voice – not once,” says Valerie Jarrett, his friend and mentor of 17 years who is widely tipped to be a senior counsel in the Obama White House....
...Danaë Carter, Igor Antonov, Valerie Tellmann and Justin MacMillan gamely got through their variations together – very together – and apart, Antonov particularly showing ballet- based virtuosity....
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