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...Bright orange poppies, California’s protected state flower, dotted the verges....
...In the hands of ghostwriter JR Moehringer, acclaimed for guiding Andre Agassi’s memoir Open, Harry’s story is told sensitively and at times movingly....
...It focuses on the barbed late-night TV debates in 1968 between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch-conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr, which catapulted the struggling ABC network...
...Reports say the city of Kyiv is on the verge of falling to Russian forces, and the UK wants to punish Russia by removing it from a major payment system....
...No, that is not just because the US central bank faces a hellishly difficult task of policy dancing when America is on the verge of an economic boom — but the Fed seems determined to keep real interest rates...
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...Another New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, Ramos was on the verge of giving up acting before auditioning for Hamilton....
...Millennials elevated Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour party and Bernie Sanders to the verge of the Democratic presidential nomination....
...(FT) The cult of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy No collage of the 1990s would be complete without a picture of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and her husband, John Kennedy Jr, walking a downtown New York street....
...Too many of her students, colleagues and friends have persuaded themselves that the republic is on the verge of collapse and that this administration is unprecedentedly malignant — as if the president’s...
...The poster depicts the movie’s protagonists — played by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr — walking along a lamplit street, their long shadows stretching to the right....
...Advocates of basic income have included two rather different Nobel laureates: the civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr and the free-market evangelist Milton Friedman....
...Just over the Thames, the Young Vic is currently reviving The Mountaintop, Katori Hall’s dramatic hagiography of Martin Luther King Jr....
...The timespan covers the singer’s Rat Pack heyday, joshing about with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr, and his undignified role as President John F Kennedy’s friend-stroke-procurer....
...Back then, Colombia was on the verge of apparent collapse....
...The film is often on the verge of being incredibly funny, and there’s always the promise of an epiphany too, or layers of tragic political allegory – none of which really goes anywhere....
...Cross-country skis take neat bootees, like basketball high tops, that have zips up the front and verge, slightly incredibly, on the stylish....
...Varig, the former flag carrier, was snapped up on the verge of bankruptcy for a bargain price by Gol two years ago....
...My late father (WFB, Jr) once said to me, “I have spent my entire life trying to separate the Right from the kooks....
...But the object of our walk clearly wasn’t one of them: where, I wondered, was the Volcano Jr? And then we saw it....
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