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...And then there’s Falstaff, dissolute knight, serial chancer and one-time kingpin of his petty-criminal world, superbly portrayed here by Ian McKellen. McKellen, nearly 85, is magnificent....
...Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao pleaded guilty last October to charges of conspiring with a foreign intelligence officer and accepting a bribe. He faced a maximum of 20 years in prison....
...Additional reporting by Gloria Li and William Langley in Hong Kong...
...Two of Whatmore’s other characters are Irish — Edmund Burke and William Petty, the earl of Shelburne, a politician who created a kind of intellectual think-tank, the Bowood Circle....
...Brace yourself for petty squabbles over tiaras and dresses....
...“He has artificially extended the life of the ANC in power,” said William Gumede, chair of Democracy Works, a civic foundation....
...Soon another liar backed up Oates’s story — William Bedloe, “a Bristol-born counterfeiter, swindler, petty thief and jail bird”, writes Stater....
...When her father, a US naval chief petty officer turned ad man, died of a heart attack when she was 10, she was brought up by her teacher mother and grandmother....
...patrick.jenkins@ft.com Letter in response to this column: The Fed’s new policy framework is a mystery / From William White, Toronto, ON, Canada...
...For years, the two men have done everything together: ski club, pledging the same fraternity, running petty antics....
...And then came George Dyer, a petty thief, loosely associated with the Kray twins, with whom Bacon spent the 1960s....
...William Trevor has explored the genre many times, notably in Fools of Fortune (1983)....
...Robert Thomson, chief executive of News Corp, has compared the past support tech platforms gave news media to “petty patronage”. But the group’s view has shifted as platforms changed tack....
...Mark Esper, US defence secretary, said Mr Trump had given him an express order to allow Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher to retire from the Navy without losing his status as a Seal, the Navy special forces...
...A dreary record of typical family bickering, petty annoyances and adolescent emotions....
...The flipside was a petty battle for status....
...Aid donors could compensate them for eliminating those tariffs out of petty cash: total development aid by richer countries last year was about $150bn....
...When the 17th-century economist William Petty came up with the idea of national accounting its purpose was obvious: to value the resources England and Wales had available to wage war against the Netherlands...
...The metrics that drove the tech industry — number of views, time on site, number of clicks, total conversions — seemed petty and perverse....
...stream-of-consciousness meditation on philosophy and life, starting with his own erratic childhood — from America to France and back again; orphanage to ivy-clad Bronxville mansion; frosty privilege to petty...
...It begins not at a tumultuous, epoch-defining ballgame or amid the cacophony of Jazz Age New York, nor is it concerned with the petty, suburban issues of an everyday family or the energy of a country under...
...Hosted by Antwan Williams and Earlonne Woods, both serving time on robbery charges, the show explored themes of solitary confinement, ageing and marriage with insight and wit....
...But the Commonwealth is looking for a new leader and salvation may be at hand if Prince William steps in....
...The attempt to have a grown-up conversation about social care descended into petty political point scoring....
...William Sharpe dropped out of Berkeley, where he was planning to study medicine, and pursued a degree in business administration at the University of California Los Angeles....
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