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...In more modern times, Virginia Woolf was plagued by insomnia....
...Time is precious for near-sexagenarian Wagner, who is concerned companies may prefer younger candidates....
...A few years ago, Gail and Miles Curley, the charming proprietors, lovingly converted a 19th-century palácio into a luxury 28-room hotel....
...As Pablo Escobar said, if the coca leaf grew in Virginia, cocaine would be legal in America. We saw that with the Sacklers and OxyContin....
...The Hours follows three women, including Virginia Woolf as she is writing Mrs Dalloway, over one day in three different points in time....
...Goldman also notes that Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenaries operate in Libya and could disrupt its oil output....
...What else we’re reading Wagner Inc: a Russian warlord and his lawyers As founder of the private mercenary operation known as the Wagner Group, which offers muscle to dictators and has waged war in the Middle...
...(He knew the piece had been written to mark Wagner’s death — a timely reminder to BBC mandarins about the value of institutional memory.)...
...Democrats try to corner Republicans on abortion Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia, has seized on the new abortion law in Texas and is using it against his Republican opponent...
...Asked about potential links between Marsalek and Wagner Group, a Russian paramilitary organisation, Schmidbauer said that the Austrian certainly “knows things that some people would not want to be published...
...Virginia Woolf stressed how much it mattered for a woman artist or writer to have “a room of one’s own” precisely because it was a rarity....
...“Maybe Haftar should go back to Virginia . . . and write his memoirs about the period where he fought his people.”...
...Erica Wagner FT contributor Ann Patchett’s The Magician’s Assistant is my choice. A book about love and grief and the redemptive power of kindness; surely what we need now....
...support of those who have been fasting for world peace in Hyderabad, India A grand arrival German Chancellor Angela Merkel takes an umbrella as she arrives at the red carpet for the opening of the Bayreuth Wagner...
...Jim Justice, the governor of West Virginia who this month switched parties from Democratic to Republican, has an idea for how to do that: a $15 a ton subsidy for burning Appalachian coal....
...Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett, Bloomsbury, RRP£18.99/ Harper, RRP$26.99, 336 pages Erica Wagner is editor of ‘First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner’ (Unbound) Photograph: Getty Images...
...On the trail Tim Kaine: top Clinton VP pick The Virginia senator – and former governor – is seen by many as the safest bet, with the least upside but also, crucially, the least downside (including a governor...
...A teenage lesbian has two kids with a caustic gay poet living in a Virginia swamp, then absconds with her pale blonde daughter and passes as black....
...There are usually 30 varieties available on any given day, and their names – Chincoteague from Virginia, Pearl Point from Washington State, Damariscotta from Maine – are pinned up above the Oyster Bar’s...
...Anna-Codrea Rado, Quartz: In a literature review of studies on open-plan offices, researchers from Virginia State University and North Carolina State University found evidence to suggest that they’re linked...
...Still picking over the entrails of the debate, Gail Collins, the New York Times columnist, has a wry take on this appeal to female voters in the debate: Women enjoy a good pander as much as anybody else...
...Friedelind Wagner: Richard Wagner’s Rebellious Granddaughter, by Eva Rieger, translated by Chris Walton, Boydell Press, RRP£30 While her brothers Wieland and Wolfgang served the Nazis and hoarded the “gold...
...This seemed to give him an edge, particularly in the swing states of Florida, Virginia and Ohio, with their 60 electoral votes, until the first presidential debate of October 3....
...But the nods to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf feel laboured, while a tendency to strain for significance in the tiniest details inevitably produces diminishing returns....
...Other irritations include Lehrer’s use of ostentatious slang: Proust’s madeleine is a “cookie”, Stravinsky was a “Hipster”, “TS Eliot …made difficulty cool”, Transfigured Night is Schoenberg’s “riff” on Wagner...
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