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...The week after it came into effect, he filed a lawsuit on behalf of a woman who alleged she had been raped by Black in 2002 at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse....
...Mickey Mouse first appeared in Steamboat Willie (1928), and on January 1 the US’s draconian 95-year copyright period comes to an end....
...And to round out this Note that inadvertently focuses on age and mortality, I’d like to mark the sad passing of Jimmy Buffett by recommending a wonderful story the New Yorker ran last year about Latitude...
...For their part, Blairites believe Starmer’s instincts are more on the “soft left” wing of the party, personified by former leaders such as Neil Kinnock, John Smith and Ed Miliband....
...Melniks later claimed in an English court that the Russian-speakers who tried to kidnap him were working on behalf of the Israelis who’d barged in on Walker....
...To mark the death of Stephen Sondheim, we republish this article celebrating the power of the musical, with three nominations for his work on Company, West Side Story and Follies....
...He loved it even more when someone nearby almost started a fight by relieving himself in the middle of 90,000 people. Eminem was great....
...Domestic steps would include stopping work on the US-Mexico border wall (such as it is), setting up a daily coronavirus briefing led by Dr Anthony Fauci or Ron Klain (who led Obama’s Ebola team) and picking...
...“He basically applied the same thinking to private companies, where it’s ‘next year, we’re going to get this drug authorised and we’ll make billions’. He’d say, ‘I’m in for that’.”...
...Mr Dampier himself acknowledges he and Mr Woodford have “known each other” for more than 25 years, but Hargreaves denies that the two men are friends, and says they have “never met outside of a professional...
...It marks the end of the five-year “Corbyn era” during which the Labour party was run by a small cabal of leftwingers inspired by Marx and Trotsky....
...The whole experience of getting suits made there is incredible. DR Harris in St James’s Street is wonderful for all kinds of creams and soaps, and Heywood Hill is the best for antiquarian books....
...level of £1.83bn; 3) capex again to be cut from the £1bn mark to £800m; and 4) Upstream to be impacted by ‘very low current wholesale commodity prices’....
...Its red, three-wheeled delivery carts remained on city streets as those ferrying goods on behalf of its rivals Alibaba and Pinduoduo struggled to find couriers....
...So Greig and I are meeting in his favourite Notting Hill restaurant, Clarke’s, to mark his first year in charge. It’s the first media interview by a Mail editor in seven years....
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...The deal is a sort of vindication for Loeb who gave himself a pat on the back after it was announced....
...We had about 70 countries in the end and a lot of the work was done by the Foreign Office. I never saw him behind on the detail — he was always focused on big issues.”...
...She went on to put Ms Ford’s specific allegations to him: “Have you ever been alone in a room with Dr Ford and Mark Judge?” “No.” “Ever ground or rubbed your genitals against Dr Ford?” “No.”...
...and particularly in comparison to the stiffness of Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey and the others he plots to deprive of Captain Flint’s treasure....
...He’d just talk about politics with Susan Sontag,” he says. Baryshnikov moved on to reading “Walcott from St Lucia, and Seamus Heaney in Ireland, or Louise Glück, in the States, or Mark Strand”....
...(FT, NYT, Yahoo, WaPo, WSJ) In the news Mark Carney under pressure to leave, vows to stay Ardent supporters of Britain’s vote to leave the EU may believe they are on the verge of another victory by forcing...
...Mark Joseph Stern at Slate has a write-up looking at some of Pence’smost extreme views dating back to his time in Congress and as the host of a rightwing talk radio show....
...He doesn’t have many allies and friends or trusted political advisers [and so relies on Ivanka and Jared]. It’s good that they’re involved.”...
...On the other hand, my experience as a correspondent in Brussels (and my own view of history), makes me think that Simms is deluding himself if he thinks that a political union in Europe is either likely...
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