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...Its premiere could hardly have been more auspicious, as Simpson floated the softest of high notes on his basset clarinet, accompanied by playing of fine balance and sensitivity by Quatuor Diotima....
...Chief capo here is the domineering equerry Major Gregory, Timothy Spall hardening his basset hound features to granite, his eyes narrowed to slits. Diana arrives late....
...William Barr on Monday unveiled charges against Abu Agila Mohammad Masud, who the US says admitted to Libyan investigators that he built the device that brought down the plane in 1988....
...For this, both Basset and Legge went to the top man, Rome’s Pompeo Batoni....
...William Hague has announced that eight Libyan diplomats will be expelled from the UK, as the government comes under increasing pressure to show it is making progress in the country....
...William Hague, UK foreign secretary, has made clear that the employment code for civil servants prohibits them from discussing with a foreign nation any advice given to past ministers....
...President Barack Obama will raise the issue of BP’s alleged role in lobbying for the release of Libyan terrorist Abdel Basset al-Megrahi when he meets David Cameron on Tuesday....
...Mr Cameron’s spokesman said the prime minister viewed the release of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi as wrong and that he “deeply regretted” the pain that his release caused....
...explain why the group, in spite of having lobbied the previous government to speed up a deal on a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya, was not responsible for the release of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset...
...But above all, he was a natural performer with a unique method: totally dead-pan and lugubrious, a style assisted by his resemblance to a basset hound....
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