Hints and tips:
...Some justices have served well into their 80s — Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Paul Stevens were both 90 when they stepped down....
...This week, in a shocking volte-face from West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, the environmentalists’ villain has struck a deal to get US climate spending back on track....
...A 2019 study by researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Toronto asked this question....
...The city is represented in the House by Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who is a non-voting delegate. It has no senators....
...The Bloomsbury Look, by Wendy Hitchmough, Yale University Press, RRP£30, 184 pages The Bloomsbury Group — and in particular, the style of Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell — has been a constant...
...Arthur Conan Doyle lived in Tennison Road, Norwood, setting for one of the first Sherlock Holmes stories....
...For comfort reading, which so often means re-reading, few books beat The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, and not just because I live round the corner from 221b Baker Street...
...It’s fascinating to hear the incoherent explanations of the biotech group’s troubles, often in founder Elizabeth Holmes’ distinctive baritone....
...It will open two major offices: one in New York, the other in Arlington, Virginia....
...Virginia Woolf’s The Years was followed by Tina Brown’s fabulously gossipy The Vanity Fair Diaries....
...Katie Holmes, Hilary Swank and Seth MacFarlane drift through, handed their Christmas cracker dialogue. There is modest tension during the heist itself....
...“And that so many young people will now have exposure to the stories of Sherlock Holmes.”...
...His emblematic short story is “Silver Blaze” by Arthur Conan Doyle, which concerns a stolen racehorse rescued by Sherlock Holmes....
...John Holmes Makin was born in Brattleboro, Vermont on May 29, 1943....
...He is not so naive,” said Peter Holmes, 53, from Washington....
...There have been several mass shootings in the years since the Columbine attacks: 32 people were killed at Virginia Tech in 2007 when a lone gunman went on a rampage, while 13 died at a shooting at the Fort...
...Thus Will Self’s Umbrella: an ambitiously conceived and brilliantly executed novel in the high modernist tradition of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, which has been longlisted for the Man Booker prize....
...It goes by the name Elephant, one of the group’s UK brands, and is initially available in Virginia only....
...We’d set off from Brooklyn for a new destination each year, somewhere between Maine and Virginia....
...Thomas Holmes, a volunteer from Virginia, said the McCain campaign had been slow to build its ground operation in his battleground state, echoing complaints from party officials across the country....
...Not even the gun massacre at Virginia Tech in 2007, when 33 people died, killed as many people from a single college....
...Most senior federal officials live in the suburbs of Maryland and Virginia. The 580,000 people who live in the District itself are mostly black, and overwhelmingly support the Democrats....
...In 1881, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes created the idea of legal positivism by announcing: “The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”...
...Recent legislation crafted by Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC’s non-voting Democrat delegate to Congress, and Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican congressman, would grant the city a voting member of the House of...
...Additional reporting by David Pilling in Tokyo and Virginia Marsh in Sydney...
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