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...In 1874 a retired military officer, Major Walter Wingfield, began marketing a game he had designed, which we would recognise today as the modern sport....
...“One of my favourite bits of writing is Walter Benjamin on Naples in One Way Street. He describes the city as [being] as porous as the stone in the architecture....
...Just as well: tennis in the age of the Big Three who have dominated the men’s game, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, is as absorbing a spectacle as it has ever been....
...The making of the estate not only brought innovative design talents such as the Spanish architect Rafael Guastavino to the area; it also sparked the establishment of furniture and textile industries here...
...“I’m working with Rafael Bonachela on a new contemporary dance piece at Sydney Dance Company in October,” she says, though I’m guessing her contribution doesn’t include a new choreographic flourish....
...Mr Moreno benefited from being the anointed candidate of President Rafael Correa, while being able to highlight important differences of style and tone with his combative mentor, whose popularity has waned...
...Hence, international investors will be more willing to make longer-term commitments,” Walter Molano, chief economist at BCP Securities, wrote in a note....
...“We’ve started sweeping up now because we’ve lost hope of finding more people alive under the rubble,” says Walter Zambrano, a government worker. “We have to move on even if we don’t know how.”...
...It was said to be for a “personal reason” but, according to various reports, the relationship between Walter and his two brothers soured over the years as Walter’s behaviour grew erratic after he was kidnapped...
...Alongside him were Ivan de Pineda and Chris Walters models now in their late 30s, not household names but immediately familiar to anyone who read the early issues of Arena Homme Plus in the mid-90s....
...The following seven officials were arrested: Jeffrey Webb, Eugenio Figueredo, Eduardo Li, Julio Rocha, Costas Takkas, Rafael Esquivel and José Maria Marin. See bios of them here....
...Spokesman Walter de Gregorio said on Wednesday that there were currently no plans to re-run it....
...Walter Spurrier, head of Grupo Spurrier, a think-thank in Guayaquil, says Correa will soon turn again to the bond markets....
...For Walter Spurrier, a political economist who runs a think tank in Guayaquil, Correa has “realised he cannot endorse the votes he already carries to a chosen successor....
...Suddenly towers swooshed and dipped, bulging, piercing and curving, a trend that has culminated in Rafael Viñoly’s top-heavy Walkie Talkie, which confidently ruins a number of city panoramas....
...The Kwok brothers were arrested in 2012 along with a third brother, Walter, who was ultimately not charged with any offences....
...No one knows whether the scrawl represented amazed delight at seeing Miró celebrated, or disapproval: the two never met, in spite of both having completed impressive murals for the Walter Gropius-designed...
...Walter Scott would have enjoyed this greatly....
...The revellers were celebrating another electoral victory by the country’s leftist president, Rafael Correa....
...But even they differed in their approach, Walter offering a more lyrical, less neurotic Mahler than Klemperer....
...An inveterate user of his mobile, Macca had just heard that his beloved club had sacked Walter Smith. “I feel for him,” said McManaman. “As a manager you’re only as good as your material....
...It was unveiled last month, shortly before Rafael Correa, Ecuador’s president, launched his campaign for election to a third term last weekend....
...But few expect a truce between Walter and his younger brothers. It is not clear whether Walter was a source of information for the investigation. Mr Kwok’s representative refused to comment....
...According to Thomas Kwok’s barrister, Walter’s name was not included in the list of prosecution witnesses....
...Rafael Hui, Hong Kong’s former chief secretary, was also arrested in March, the highest-level civil servant to be put under arrest in the history of the city’s Independent Commission Against Corruption....
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